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  • Ernest Hemingway Never go back to your old front.
    Reynolds - Hemingway: The Homecoming
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson New arts destroy the old.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Huh New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Ben Folds Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Calvin Klein No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • Marie Beyon Ray No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sydney Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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  • Samuel Ullman Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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