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Age of Reason
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  • "I was right there in the room when they came up with the idea that a pregnancy could be terminated retroactively once a child reaches the age of reason," says the Admiral.†   (source)
  • This was so characteristic that the French Enlightenment is often called the Age of Reason.†   (source)
  • It has been proven that at the age of 7 most of us have reached the age of reason-which means we do, at this age, understand & know the difference between right & wrong.†   (source)
  • They both saw from the doorway the end of a drama that had began before Jose Arcadio had reached the age of reason.†   (source)
  • There once was an Age of Reason, but we've progressed beyond it.†   (source)
  • It was a very peculiar hobby for anyone to have in this age of reason.†   (source)
  • That notion worked fine at Beaufort High School, where my students had more or less reached the age of reason and could be dealt with and reached by words.†   (source)
  • Timothy was a wiry old laborer, of a type lingering in those times—who had his savings in a stocking-foot, lived in a lone cottage, and was not to be wrought on by any oratory, having as little of the feudal spirit, and believing as little, as if he had not been totally unacquainted with the Age of Reason and the Rights of Man.†   (source)
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