#eighteen

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. ↗

— Lee Trevino

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After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#growing-up #dreams

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. ↗

— Rene Cassin

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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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