"Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional……" — Niall Ferguson

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• I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and… — Margaret Atwood
• India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still… — Sri Aurobindo
• India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never… — Sri Aurobindo
• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of… — Diane Ackerman
• For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
• The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself… — Honore de Balzac
• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum
• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,… — Annie Besant
• It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan

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