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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Peter de Vries Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Samuel Johnson At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Salvador Dali At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Candice Bergen But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Billy Boyd But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • George Burns By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Anna Jameson Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Caity Lotz Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Lou Holtz Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Phil McGraw Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Jackie Mason Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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