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Source: Five Somewhat Historical Plays

“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

“What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.”

Stories Age Form Monsters Love Story Confusion Narrative Coming Of Age Categories Superhero Gothic Mixing Tropes Incongruity

Author:Kelly Link

“In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.”

“Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.”

Men Age Lust Old Age

Author:Pope Pius II

“Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.”

Should Said Self Facts Age Together Middle Connections Opposites Sake Accomplish Absence Curious Code Destructive Leisure Inability Idleness Middle Ages Restlessness Self Destructive

Author:Josef Pieper

“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.”

Self Age Sides Memories Watches Impossible Journey Return Messages Draws Garden Distance Old Age Horizon Void Sunlight Signals Astronaut Quietness Watch Me Decipher Ripening Far Side

Author:R. S. Thomas

“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

“Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.”

Age Humanity Universe Justice Stage Theory Injustice Immortality Providence Thrones Verdict Travesty Rectification

Author:Randolph Sinks Foster

“Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.”

Age Cost Lows Machines Fund Mutual This Day Investors Retail Discounts Brokers Mutual Fund

Author:Joel Spolsky

“Age isn't important until you run out of it.”

Important Running Age Ageing

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“We have in fact entered upon the final phase..., the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which there is to be no emerging except through a cataclysm, since it is no longer a mere revival which is required, but a complete renovation.”

States Facts Age Growth Dark Periods Mere Finals Phases Revival Emerging Dark Ages Dissolution Renovation

Author:Rene Guenon

“Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.”

Ifs World Humans Dream Age Faith Universe Offers Prove Presses Connected Driven Make Sense Metaphysics Constructs Strangeness Terrain

Author:E. O. Wilson

“The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!”

“The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.”

Humans Age Water Steps Plans Risk Car Old Age Contact Seats Panic Trash Belts Prudence Soap Paranoia Plunge Steep Seat Belts

Author:Max Lucado

“I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.”

Age Three Terror Village Carts Carrier Bewilderment

Author:Laurie Lee

“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.”

Real Character Age Moving Passion Fake Mask Being Real Fake People

Author:Victoria Abril

“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.”

Kind Has Beens Kids Age Serious Beats England Notes East London Boxing Canada Twelve Accents Taunting Cockneys East London

Author:Lennox Lewis

“Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.”

World Different Whole Age Able Company Careers Records Possibility Whole World Enjoyed New Age Record Companies Staggering

Author:Lyle Lovett

“We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.”

Stills Age Forget Seventies Omniscient

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.”

Thinking Knows World Book Enough Age Universe Written Mankind Creation Nine Prophet Over It World History Cozy

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.”

World May Age Praise Ancient Knees Gentleman Shallow Glances Admiring Too Deep Dupes Buckles Pigtails

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.”

Humans Has Beens Age Information Communication Human Experience Information And Communication

Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

“Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.”

Age Gains Logic Overcoming Age And Experience Oromis

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.”

Age Sun Moon Shining Pastures Musings Nativity Interim

Book:The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

“We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.”

Ifs Trying Whole Feelings Age Situation Greater Pieces Love You Strange Filled Holes Complexity Capture Puzzles Sincerely Simplify Say I Love You Fragmented

Author:Christoffer Boe

“Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.”

Stills Enough Age Three Given Enjoy Heard Danger Plenty Worried Thirty Seventies Deadline Utterance Oracles Nero

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”

Long Age Young Literature Errors Old Age Birthday Acceptable Drag

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.”

Age Lord Kings

Author:Robert Henryson

“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”

Age Values Turns Church Vision Embrace Greed Believer Kingdoms Abandon Materialism Biblical Consumerism Kingdom Of God Mandates

Author:Alan Hirsch

“Age merely shows what children we remain.”

Children Shows Age Literature

Book:Faust

Source: Faust

“They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. [.....] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. "You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th." Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. [.....] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.”

Knows World Want May Littles Use Problem Age Spirit Order Waiting Millions Population Excuse Guides Demon Target Suspects New World New World Order World Order Aquarius

Author:Kent Hovind

“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”

Age Science Literature Individual Credit Dues Birthday Advancing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”

Age Faces Common Four Wall Plenty Prisoner Sixty Four Walls

Author:Albert Kesselring

“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

“We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.”

World Ideas Different Age Beautiful Generations Mankind Building Creator Superiors Golden Revolutionary Dedicated Builder This Generation Golden Age Beautiful World

Author:Ben Klassen

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”

Years Age Five Periods Battle Consequence Ultimate Five Years Helpful Sixty Continuing Colleagues Seventies Persuading Qualifying Ultimate Success

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.”

Might Age Energy Force Lines Fields Stones Britain Trails Stone Age

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.”

Heart Age Form Old Age

Book:Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh : in 2 Vols

Source: Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh : in 2 Vols

“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”

Should Age Literature Effects Music Is Dignity Agree Remains Sacred Secular Cheerful Secular Music

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.”

Thinking Writing Two Age Lines Party Keys Balance Profession Strikes Idiot Mediocrity Key To Success Cognitive Consonance Writing And Thinking

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.”

“Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.”

Want Play Bigs Age Remember Stuff Sides Seeing Stage Angel Guitar Dust Gigs Dean

Author:Mike Patton

“The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.”

Age Song Greater Pages Forgotten Theatre Warrior Triumph Unborn Minstrels

Book:BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

“Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.”

World Age Causes Enemy Greater Activity Spread Betray Honorable Strife Foe Careless Saviour Cowardly Stirring Manifold Placid

Book:Biographical and Historical Lectures: Comprising: The Prophet of Horeb, John Bunyan; Macaulay; Wilberforce; The Huguenots

Source: Biographical and Historical Lectures: Comprising: The Prophet of Horeb, John Bunyan; Macaulay; Wilberforce; The Huguenots

“In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.”

Needs Age Social Process Labor Assertive

Author:Herbert Schiller

“No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.”

Way Art Age Able Spiritual Energy Left Easy Enjoy Materials Conscience Dues Fortunate Ancestor Enjoy Life Art Of Living Time Left Spiritual Energy Living Better

Author:Flora Thompson

“I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.”

Self Age Able Accepting Sufficient Forty Far Away Looking Forward Self Sufficient Being Old

Author:Stella Vine

“Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.”

Seems Age Together Stuff Environment Modern Loyalty Permanent Selfless Comes And Goes Fidelity Flip Transactions Reciprocity

Author:Eric Felten

“It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are still primarily art-world phenomena, others that appeal to much broader audiences. The Burning Man festival is a case in point--an event featuring performance that is itself a performance, which partakes simultaneously of frontier mythology, a counter-cultural impulse, and popular cultural visibility.”

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