#aged

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#middle #music #often #out #players

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#black #civilization #engaged #immigrant #in the past

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#become #competitive #disagreeable #encouraged #many

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #default #find #i #instruments

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. ↗

— Arthur E. Morgan

#almost #feel #greatest #important #lack

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death