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Letter "A" » An Age
«One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.»
«I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
age of, An Age, competent, extraordinary, incompetence
«Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast / And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.»
«I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.»
Author: Gerald Brenan
| About:
Age
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age of the, An Age, culotte, revolutionist, revolutionists, SANS, thirty-three, Three Ages
«Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
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Absence
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An Age, every month, months, reckons
«Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| About:
Advertising,
Age,
Disillusionment,
Life,
Living,
Perfection
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advertisement, age of, An Age, disillusion, disillusioned, perpetually, spread
«In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved»
Author: Russel Baker
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Fashion
| Keywords:
admission, An Age, beloved, confessing, unfaithfulness
«One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.»
«Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accords, An Age, examination, exempted, exemption, grounds, lay claim, legislation, regarded, sacredness, subjected, The Authority, tribunal
«It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken»
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