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Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1090.

  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Mae West Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Burgess Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Angela Carter Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Les Brown You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Mohsin Hamid You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Burns You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Jack Kerouac You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
    Jack Kerouac
    American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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