"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age."

Age, Dumb, Old

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"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age."

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"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it."

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"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."

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"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder."

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"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."

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"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."

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"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

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"The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness."

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"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."

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"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

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"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school."

Grace Abbott, American Activist

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"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

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"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

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"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic

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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."

James Truslow Adams, American Historian

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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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