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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
The God Delusion -
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
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The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
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The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39 -
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187 -
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad.The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad -
The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
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The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
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