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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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  • Benjamin Hoff As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Cass Sunstein As presidents from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama have recognized, the real question is whether regulations, whether new or old, are justified. That requires a careful analysis of their costs and their benefits.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Elizabeth Jennings At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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  • Bo Burnham At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Bob Uecker Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Aristotle Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • A. E. Housman Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
    Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 48, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • George Santayana Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Cameron Diaz Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Auberon Waugh Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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