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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
- Air Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020