You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

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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

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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Martha Gellhorn

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift

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I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Jimmy Buffett

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age

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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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age

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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

James Buchan

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown

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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Gary Oldman

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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Jim Bishop

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age

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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

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That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Alvah Bessie

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cat , said , canary

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I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Brandon Cruz

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feel , anything

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Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... Be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expression of a given mental mood, any given mood, then that mental mood itself will follow.

Kenneth Goode

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get , out , bed , forcing , you

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In order to keep the love going, you want to keep it fun.

Travis Kalanick

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order , keep , love

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Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

Philipp Meyer

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changed , getting , pinnacle

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The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

Gijs de Vries

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violent , radicals , represent

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Super Cruise will follow the lanes of the road, follow the speed you set, and you can be hands-off driving on an expressway.

Mary Barra

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I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I'm a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.

Engelbert Humperdinck

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drink , lot , water

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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

J. K. Rowling

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After Athens was defeated in 404 B.C. Following the Peloponnessian war, thirty people were elected as government. During their thirteen month reign, they killed about 5% percent of the Athenian population and confiscated much of their property. Their rule was so cruel they became known as 'The Thirty Tyrants'.

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You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

Mark Rylance

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wear , serving

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Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different.

Tracy Pollan

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everybody , more , challenges

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I have the life of seven cats.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Andrew Young

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talk , even , make

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I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

Mel Gibson

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moderate , try , eat

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

– Ian Hislop –

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