Age Specific Mortality

Famous quotes containing the words age, specific and/or mortality:

    “Our age is an age of moderate virtue
    And of moderate vice
    When men will not lay down the Cross
    Because they will never assume it.
    Yet nothing is impossible, nothing,
    To men of faith and conviction.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
    Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
    A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)