"The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve."

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Jacques Barzun

#Philosophy Quotes #Men Quotes #Age Quotes

“Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.”
“People who have not tried, know so much about gardening! - and so little.”
“I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.”
“That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.”
“In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.”
“There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.”
“In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.”

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