#middle age

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'. ↗

— June Whitfield

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. ↗

— John Grierson

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. ↗

— Richard Hughes

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Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#death #does #even #middle #middle age

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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