Quotes with old-world

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  • Harry Weinberger The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
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  • Bryant H. McGill The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brian Tracy The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Agatha Christie The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Albert Einstein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • T. Shadwell The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William James The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    Source: The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Nicholas Butler The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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