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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
— Richard L. Evans
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Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions…
— H. L. Mencken
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
— Ezra Pound
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Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything…
— Jared Sparks
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In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and…
— Penelope Keith
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they…
— Henri Matisse
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Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
— Pablo Picasso
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I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and…
— Paul Engle
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When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
— Julie Kagawa
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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age,…
— Bible
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