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You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

~Daniel Handler

Topics: Adult Age Because Certain Certain Age Embarrassed Failed Go Kind Know Look Means Often Once Reach See Up Vocabulary Word World You

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The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.

~Daniel Hannan

Topics: Ability Age Around Book Condition Each Each Man Every Favourite Found Gather Gentle Had His Island Like Lines Man Many Mark Nation Occasion Passed Peculiar Plays Prisoners Read Shakespeare Used

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At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

~Daniel Hope

Topics: Age Been Bought Eight First Gazing Hours Like Man Moon Must Only Overall Part Picture Realized Remember Small Small Part Spend Stars Telescope Thinking Very Were Would I Remember

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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Age Attribute Before Effects Except Extreme Fallacy Intuitive Issues Just Made Mostly Planning Predictions Prone Some Study Thinking

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I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

~Daniel Levitin

Topics: Advances Age Agriculture Any Bad Beyond Decisions Fields Great Handle Information Information Age Leads Less Many Medicine More Much Often Other Overload Problem Should Than Think Too Too Much Transportation Two Us World Yielded

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From an early age, my initiative took many forms - teaching myself magic so I could do magic shows, buying wholesale goods and then selling them to other kids, learning many languages.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Age Buying Could Early Early Age Forms Goods Initiative Kids Languages Learning Magic Many Myself Other Other Kids Selling Shows Teaching Them Then Took Wholesale

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My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

~Daniel Nathans

Topics: About After Age Also Began Education Job Months Most Other Public Public Schools School Schools Some Summer Weekends Worked Years

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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: About After Age Because Did Either Eleven Find Lot Making Making Money Money People School Shoes Something Spare Spare Time Time Try Used Ways Young Young People Youth

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I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

~Daniel Radcliffe

Topics: About Actor Age Always Bad Behaviour Ever Going Had Intolerance Like Person Think

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When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

~Daniel Radcliffe

Topics: Age Artistic Creative Early Figure How Impact Kind Make Out Seventeen Some Start Time Trying Twenties Who Work Work Out You

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