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“I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.”

Thinking Age Starting Buddhist Monk Rama Starting Point Initiation Buddhist Monk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.”

Age Special Perspective Eastern Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting.”

Age Moving Chance Return Exciting Clean Moving Forward Rama Saturn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.”

Age Enjoy Rocks Stage Particular Producers Categories New Age Rama Stage Presence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."”

Age Fiction Liberty Type New Age Rama Parody Snowboarding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.”

Writing Age Style Chosen Selling New Age Rama Parody Andrew Writing Style

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Important Age Enjoy Fiction Nonfiction Metaphysical New Age Rama Occult Fiction And Nonfiction Very Inspirational

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.”

People Age Intelligent Mature

Author:Daniel Goleman

“The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.”

World Should Made Philosophy Age Dark Powerful Teacher Information Available Technique Release Buddhist Very Powerful Notable Dark Ages Tantra Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.”

Writing Age Literature Nations Sports Animal Imagine Weapons Lions Stakes Mail Sanctions Tease Patron Diversion Paws Armour Boars

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency.”

Writing Age Lasts Desire Nations Produce Claims Curiosity Temporary

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.”

Thinking Want Age Events Golf

Author:Sam Snead

“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy, old age and infirmity. As in all his campaigns, he assailed his adversary with endless high spirits, expert advice, ample helpings of brandy and champagne, and the loving and long-suffering support of his wife.”

“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”

“In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.”

“In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.”

Ifs Thinking Age Able Past Life Is Pleasure History Humour Let Me Golden Plenty Transport Golden Age Single Word Dentistry

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

Men Way Art Country Age Remember Lying History Nice Rocks Humour Patriotic Diplomacy Diplomats

Author:Robert Frost

“Nobody fights with Jerry because you know the price would be too high. You might come out the winner, at his age, you might even lick him, but you'd lose an eye, an arm, your testicles in the process, everything would be gone.”

Knows Might Would Be Eye Age Funny Fighting Process Loses Gone Arms Winner Nba Jerry Testicles

Author:Frank Layden

“It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.”

Age Young Sports Hurt Deals Pressure Starting Compare League It Hurts Young Age Hurt Me

Author:Al Kaline

“It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.”

Needs Looks Kind Age Sports Example Fields Huge Gaps Veteran Age Gap

Author:Barry Zito

“Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field-to enhance their physical appearance. I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.”

“I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.”

Thinking World Age Young Games Winning Sports Average Cups Improving World Cup Squad

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.”

Wells Philosophy Age Politics Community Economy Middle Conditions Independent Property Liberalism Middle Ages

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.”

“My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.”

Two Real Shows Kids Age Boys Break Paid Cameras Real Life

Author:Alan Thicke

“I definitely think there's a lot of pressure for teenaged girls and guys to hook up on prom. I think it comes with the belief that you have to lose your virginity before you go to college. It's a coming of age thing. I think it's really sad because it has nothing to do with what you want and everything to do with peer pressure. But it comes with the territory of prom. Thankfully more and more kids are knowing their limits, and I think we're raising kids to be really good people, and they're realizing that they don't need to do it just because.”

“He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.”

Age Dangerous Particular Edges Painful

Author:Derek Jacobi

“I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.”

Thinking Mind War Kids Age Soldier Iraq Wounded Of My Mind

Author:Garry Trudeau

“I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.”

Want Age Stars Parent Walks Wake Up

Author:Irene Cara

“It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.”

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.”

People Age Certain Atheism Independent Positive Atheism Formulas Bells Electric Buttons Identical Vary Transitory

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.”

Men Has Beens Age Lasts Generations Atheism Century He Man Men And Women Saint Positive Atheism March Pious Heretic Persecuted Infidel

Book:Theological Essays

Source: Theological Essays

“Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.”

Ifs Thinking Years Wells Littles Age Literature Attitude Impact University Sixty Royal Charles I

Author:Anthony Holden

“This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.”

Ends Age Darkness Wonderful Buddhism Supposed To Be Cycles Cosmic Fourth Rebirth Dissolution Kali Kali Yuga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.”

People World Mind Use Age Success Energy Careers Buddhism Dollars Checks Old Age Corporate Paychecks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.”

People Age Success Careers Successful Special Taught Buddhism Loser

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.”

People Men Dream Age Dies Given Atheism Died Sake Positive Atheism Golden Prophet Given Up Golden Age

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.”

Age School Given Understanding Teacher Atheism Effects Policy Students Fellows Positive Atheism Setting Settings Norm

Author:Alfred Goodwin

“The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.”

“I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of it when I started at a rather tender age; I was simply awed by dinosaurs. I thought paleontologists spent their lives digging up bones and putting them together, never venturing beyond the momentous issue of what connects to what. Then I discovered evolutionary theory. Ever since then, the duality of natural history-richness in particularities and potential union in underlying explanation-has propelled me.”

Important Age Together Natural Issues Heard Atheism Fields Theory Lucky Exciting Unions Bones Wander Explanation Richness Duality Digging Dinosaurs Natural History

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.”

Country Age Religious Moral Atheism Teaching Development Higher Positive Atheism

Book:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

Source: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

“In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Reason Age Fall Easy Difficult Cases Week Atheism Drug Late Abortion Zero Slides Women Want Slippery Slopes Fetus Slippery Slope

Author:Garrett Hardin

“When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.”

“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Age Winning Growing Up Growing Basketball Seven Clubs Eight Gentleman Championship Veteran

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.”

People Ifs Way Made Seems Age Names Church Chance Hell Atheism Degrees Eternal Positive Atheism Cruelty Gas Sinner Torment Justified Chamber Humane Heretic Gas Chambers

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.”