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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51 -
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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