Quotes 241 till 260 of 1090.
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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
Toespraak bij ontvangst Nobelprijs (2001) -
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22. -
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 19-20 -
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
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