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We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.
I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
At what age should one marry? As a rule of thumb, perhaps not until you are past the age of feeling strongly that you must marry.
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.
The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.
It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.
Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.
I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.
I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.
In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.
We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.