Quotes with old-timers

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  • Joseph Campbell Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Albert Einstein Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment.
    The evolution of physics (1938)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Caity Lotz Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Will Durant Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Elizabeth Jennings Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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  • Arnold Bennett Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bill Drayton Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Bing Gordon Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Bode Miller Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Billie Jean King Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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