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  • Bing Gordon Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Armstrong Williams Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bode Miller Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Billie Jean King Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • John Berger Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Voltaire Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Agatha Christie Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Horace Every old poem is sacred.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jonathan Swift Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Elvis Presley Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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