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«Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.»
Author: Lillian Carter
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Age
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Age of Reason, economical, guy, keeps, lights, middle, middle age, reasons, romantic, romantics, The Romantic, turning
«If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Age of Reason, classical, considerable, link, repression, sexuality, the Classical
«And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
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«The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.»
«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Age of Reason, content, fireside, firesides, keep back, kept, look on, meant
«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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«One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.»
«No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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Age of Reason, come back, console, dark ages, frightening, ideology, inhumanity, My ideas, The Long Dark, The Other World
«Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.»
«Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.»
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