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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?


Aldous Huxley

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JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Unfair world;Before Life's Judges gives some races one opportunity,they will have given others fifty...
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GREG POLAND Some people registered as NGOs hoping to get funding and the vast majority of them never de-register...
ANJA BEER Some people registered as NGOs hoping to get funding and the vast majority of them never de-register...
ANJA DE BEER Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
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ELIZABETH BOWEN To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
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DAVID OGILVY By the age of fifty, people are cooked.
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W. H. AUDEN Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience...
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ANN RULE We love to get young people out here to learn and then they can mentor others.
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ANTON CHEKHOV Everyone in white. We should open up our gates two hours before and get all the people in white shir...
PHILIP TRONSRUE Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
ALDOUS HUXLEY I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is on...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
ALDOUS HUXLEY After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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