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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
Age and Aging
Rose F. Kennedy

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People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
Tolerance
Charles F. Kettering

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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
Uncategorised
John Maynard Keynes

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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Materialism
John Maynard Keynes

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Courage
Basil King

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Risk
Billie Jean King

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage
King Jr. Martin Luther

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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Quotations
Rudyard Kipling

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Army and Navy
Karl Kraus

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Few people know how to be old.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Promotion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Fortune
Latin Proverb

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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Appreciation
Latin Proverb

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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Letters
D. H. Lawrence

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Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Tragedies
D. H. Lawrence

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.
Opinions
Fran Lebowitz

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Friends and Friendship
John Leonard

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Life and Living
H. T. Leslie

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Grief
C. S. Lewis

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A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Joe E. Lewis

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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Literature
Sinclair Lewis

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Oppression
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun