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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard
Change
Journalism
World
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
Age
Maturity
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard
Life
People
Possibility
Gain
Sense
Will
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard
Childhood
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard
Beauty
Certainty
Joy
May
Order
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Tom Stoppard
Art
Painting
Sculpture
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Tom Stoppard
Nothing
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard
Decision
Want
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
Truth
Certainty
Facts
Principles
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard
Thought
End
Eternity
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
Tom Stoppard
Power
Right
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
Age
Maturity
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
Art
Imagination
Skill
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard
Attitude
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
Democracy
Voting