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  • Cass Sunstein As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Stephen Bayley As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Bill Gates As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
    As quoted in "In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture" (Leadership Press, 1995) by John R. Childress, p. 134
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Elizabeth Jennings At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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  • Adolf Loos At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Bo Burnham At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Bob Uecker Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Aristotle Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Barry Marshall Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Cameron Diaz Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Auberon Waugh Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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