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America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
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An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
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And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the collegeHighway 61 Revisited (1965) -
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.East and West Poems, Part I The Old Major Explains -
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
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Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
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Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
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