Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1466.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952) -
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Source: Alastor -
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.Source: Bedouin Song -
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
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To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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