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  • Sir Robert Anderson In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
    Sir Robert Anderson
    English police officer, theologian and writer (1841 - 1918)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bijou Phillips In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
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  • Will Durant In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Oscar Wilde In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carol P. Christ In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • John Ruskin In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joe Montana In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Albert Ellis In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • August Strindberg In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • John Jewel In the old time we have treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.
    Certain sermons preached before the queen's majesty (1609)
    John Jewel
    English clergyman and bishop (1522 - 1571)
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  • Oscar Wilde In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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