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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist
Age, American, Importance, Voting
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
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"Money is a poor man's credit card."
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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
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"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
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"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."
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"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."
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"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
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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
Age, Education, Argument, Children
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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
Age, Balance, Individuality, Morals
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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
Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing
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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
Age, Thought, Discipline, Value
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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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