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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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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: 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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  • Jean Paul In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Josh Billings In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Michael Vance Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.
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  • Anne Frank Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Peter Ackroyd Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Sir John Harvey It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Amartya Sen It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Aeschylus It is always in season for old men to learn.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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