A Quote by Theodore Dalrymple

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

Theodore Dalrymple

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Age Does Grow More Stupid World

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Theodore Dalrymple
English - Writer
Born: October 11, 1949

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John C. Maxwell

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Usher

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffer

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

George Orwell

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Jane Campion

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Mary Berry

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John Masefield

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Hesketh Pearson

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Douglas Malloch

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Howard Stringer

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Billy Connolly

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Rajneesh

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