"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."
-John Jay Chapman
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"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.“
-John Jay Chapman
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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