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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Arthur Golden Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • John Burroughs How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • William Shakespeare How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Satchel Paige How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Antonin Artaud However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Adam Brody I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Camille Desmoulins I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rita Mae Brown I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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