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• In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Men, Childhood

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.347

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• As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Thinking, Aging

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• After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

  Mason Cooley

  Self Questioning, Age, Aging

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• The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Father, Blood

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.

  Judith Viorst

  Soccer, Football, Fall

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Race, Skills

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.88, Routledge

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• All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, People, Focus

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

  Gertrude Stein

  Tired, Age, Way

  Gertrude Stein (1946). “Brewsie and Willie”

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• Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.

  Russell Baker

  Mother, Years, Class

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• Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Pride, Compassion, Elderly

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• I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.

  Diamanda Galas

  Mother, Class, White

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• Death cut the strings that gave me life,
  And handed me to Sorrow,
  The only kind of middle wife
  My folks could beg or borrow.

  Countee Cullen

  Cutting, Wife, Sorrow

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Two

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• The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

  Gerald Early

  Ambition, Class, America

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• I know she's just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing 'til you hear water.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• In the Middle Age, in Germany, if you wanted to learn addition and multiplication, you could go to any university. But if you wanted to learn division, you could only do it in one place, Heidelberg. This makes sense, since in my theory with Vladimir Retakh and Robert Wilson, addition and multiplications are cheap, but division is expensive.

  Israel Gelfand

  Science, Age, Germany

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• There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

  Tom Stoppard

  Science, Clothes, Different

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• Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

  Karl Kraus

  Greek, Age, Boyhood

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Leadership, Money, War

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• And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Class, Wife

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.

  Alfred Doblin

  Kings, Glasses, Ice

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• Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

  Paul Krugman

  Spring, Democracy, Middle East

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• The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the middle ground, a lived-in self that has no need of middle ground. That new self makes unseen reality within seen.

  John de Ruiter

  Reality, Self, Unseen

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• For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.

  Terry Crews

  Football, Team, Character

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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