Adora Svitak Quotes, Voice Quotes, Age Quotes

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

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A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

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