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Letter "A" » Age of Man
«I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.»
«Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
Age of Man, enjoyable, fondle, fondles, hug, universally
«Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Reading
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«God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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ages, Age of Man, Age to Age, caves, cave in, cave man, Cave of the, come of age, Considering, dead, God is dead, My state, other states, perhaps, shadow, shown, state, stating, The Dead Man, The State, yet
«A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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age of, Age of Man, bigger, communist, The Age, thirties, thirty, Thirty one, twenty
«And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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Thought
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age of, Age of Man, age of the, a few, passing, season
«The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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ages, Age of Man, ago, centuries, died, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, lights, personalities, reaches
«Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b»
Author: Lord Byron
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Men
| Keywords:
Age of Man, barbarous, hover, middle-aged man, printed, sage, scarce
«Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age»
«Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times»
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