Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
– Roland Barthes
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- The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. – Roland Barthes
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- Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering. – Roland Barthes
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- Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive. – Roland Barthes
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- The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition. – Bryant McGill
- With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older. – Amanda L Moritz
- There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- For specific prayers, there are specific answers. – Dr Lucas D Shallua
- To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen. – Phil Cooke
- Every good vision is not meant to benefit or serve self, where a -˜vision’ is for self; it is not more a vision, but an ambition. – ANIKOR Daniel
- Know your vision, live your vision, share your vision. – Alin Sav
- He who has a mind has thoughts and he who has thoughts has vision! Think vision. Produce vision! – Darnaya Darice
- The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. – Ayn Rand
- Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle-¦ and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the slightest.#dean – Shayla Orick
- The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead
- Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence. – Nancy J Napier
- Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age – Unarine Ramaru
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- To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation. – Sunday Adelaja
- Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground. – Sunday Adelaja
- The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted – Sunday Adelaja
- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Sren Kierkegaard
- The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. – Orrin Woodward
- Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness. – Hanif Kureishi
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- The fortune that you feel you don’t deserve is heaven’s compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn’t deserve – Agona Apell
- No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward. – Una McCormack
- Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think. – Edgar Johnson