- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
- Posture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- Nov 07, 2020
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- Digital Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.
- Fresh
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- Nov 07, 2020