Quotes 401 till 420 of 1090.
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In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
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Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?
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Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
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