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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Buster Keaton If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
    As Calveros Partner in Limelight (1952)
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • Henry S. Haskins If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • James A. Garfield If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Edgar W. Howe If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Nye If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Jessamyn West If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • B. F. Skinner If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
    The First World War (1963) p. 165
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Ann Druyan In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bryan Robson In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Socrates In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Alfred Marshall In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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