- People
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is a shipwreck.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020