T Quotes
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“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
Source: science and survival
“The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.”
Source: Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution
“The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you've never explored before, what human nature is like.”
“The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.”
“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down our noses at those who manage to retain their innocence; we scoff at these few as being immature or irresponsible. Could it be that we hide our envy behind the cloudy eyes of our lost innocence?”
Source: Soul Awakened
“The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!”
“The age of miracles is forever here.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
“The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.”
Source: Human energy
“The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.”
Source: Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification
“The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.”
“The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.”
“The age of political correctness had just dawned upon the virtual universe. Online activism had become a profession. Wokeness was spreading its roots in the most notorious way. Jokes were being cracked on jokes. Lies came after lies and yet everything maintained its entertainment quotient. In some ways, those truly were – in Dickens’ words – the best and the worst of times.”
“The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.”
“The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.”
Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.”
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity of even the most perfectly captured sound to restore the moment of its first inscribing. That world is no longer there.”
Source: Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears
“The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.”
“The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.”
“The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.”
“The age of the book is almost gone.”
“The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.”
“The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.”
“The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.”
“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.”
“The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"”
“The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people willing to be modern - the process is under surveillance now. With this illness, one that elicits so much guilt and shame, the effort to detach it from these meanings, these metaphors, seems particularly liberating, even consoling. But the metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up.”
Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“The age or background of a leader must never be a determining factor for success or failure in leadership. A leader’s impact is what matters the most.”
Source: The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader
“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”
Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].
“The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?”
“The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.”
“The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”
Source: Bentham: A Fragment on Government
“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.”
“The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.”
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”
“The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.”
“The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.”
“The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.”
Source: The Judge
“The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.”
“The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.”
“The aged prosper in wisdom and the young in possibility.”
“The aged prosper in wisdom and the young in possibility. Blessed are the ones that know.”
“The aged prospers in wisdom and the young in possibility.”
“The aged remember their youth but the young have no aged memories.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The aged sometimes feel enraged because of being caged in a stage of life ravaged by discomforts, their often wild talk is not a gauge of their appreciation.”
“The ageing, oppressive, authoritarian dictator tends to forget one axiomatic truth; the nation and the people have time, he does not.”
“The ageing process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball”
“The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.”