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title: "8 Age Thinks Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [“Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-g-jung/ultimately-everything-depends-on-the-quality-of-the-individual-but/)

[C.G. Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-g-jung/)

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> [Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/naturally-every-age-thinks-that-all-ages-before-it-were-prejudiced/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [Harry, I owe you an explanation, An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albus-dumbledore/harry-i-owe-you-an-explanation-an-explanation-of-an-old-man-s/)

[Albus Dumbledore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albus-dumbledore/)

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> [For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all the hallmarks of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albus-dumbledore/for-i-see-now-that-what-i-have-done-and-not-done-with-regard-to-you/)

[Albus Dumbledore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albus-dumbledore/)

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> [“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling/youth-can-not-know-how-age-thinks-and-feels-but-old-men-are-guilty-if/)

[J.K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling/)

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> [Every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-pickens/every-age-thinks-it-is-perfect-especially-in-religion/)

[William Pickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-pickens/)

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> [Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-heine/every-age-thinks-its-battle-the-most-important-of-all/)

[Heinrich Heine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-heine/)

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> [Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling-2/youth-cannot-know-how-age-thinks-and-feels-but-old-men-are-guilty-if/)

[J. K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling-2/)

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