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141 " At an age when most children love to play with toys, he played with weapons. "
― Nawab Shafath Ali Khan
142 " Why should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire?What could have made her peaceful with a mindThat nobleness made simple as a fire,With beauty like a tightened bow, a kindThat is not natural in an age like thisBeing high and solitary and most stern?Why, what could she have done, being what she is?Was there another Troy for her to burn? "
― W.B. Yeats , The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
143 " 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. "
144 " At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect. "
145 " We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. "
146 " Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before. "
147 " No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change. "
148 " In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing. "
149 " We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are? "
150 " Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive. "
151 " We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "
152 " It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism. "
153 " We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes. "
154 " We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings. "
155 " I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. "
― Billy Joel
156 " 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. "
157 " We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. "
158 " The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. "
159 " A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. "