Quotes with century-old

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  • Buddy Rice I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Bill Nye I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • William Faulkner If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Buster Keaton If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
    As Calveros Partner in Limelight (1952)
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  • Benito Mussolini If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the collective century, and therefore the century of the state.
    The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • Marshall Mcluhan If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Henry S. Haskins If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Bella Abzug If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • George H.W. Bush If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • James A. Garfield If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Edgar W. Howe If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Nye If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Jessamyn West If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • B. F. Skinner If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
    The First World War (1963) p. 165
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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