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title: "Inspiring Old man Words"
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> [Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/believe-not-because-some-old-manuscripts-are-produced-believe-not-2/)

[Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/)

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> [“The same Abba Theophilus, the archbishop, came to Scetis one day. The brethren who were assembled said to Abba Pambo, "Say something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abba-pambo/the-same-abba-theophilus-the-archbishop-came-to-scetis-one-day-the-2/)

Abba Pambo

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> [“--Your headache-- I am trying to imagine it Your head is in your hands The nurse is pouring pills onto a plate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-kasischke/your-headache-i-am-trying-to-imagine-it-your-head-is-in-your-hands/)

[Laura Kasischke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-kasischke/)

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> [“A testimony is a precious gift of the Spirit, a sign that we have in fact been born again (1 John 5:1).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-l-millet/a-testimony-is-a-precious-gift-of-the-spirit-a-sign-that-we-have-in/)

[Robert L. Millet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-l-millet/)

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> [“The nobleman fell to his knees. 'Sir, come down to my son ere he die.' His old face. His love for his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niall-williams/the-nobleman-fell-to-his-knees-sir-come-down-to-my-son-ere-he-die-his/)

[Niall Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niall-williams/)

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> [“If you two do not stop,” Kanin said without turning around, “I am going to find another road to Eden without you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-kagawa/if-you-two-do-not-stop-kanin-said-without-turning-around-i-am-going/)

[Julie Kagawa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-kagawa/)

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> [“A man will win one tourney, and fall quickly in the next. A slick spot in the grass may mean defeat, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin/a-man-will-win-one-tourney-and-fall-quickly-in-the-next-a-slick-spot/)

[George R.R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-r-martin/)

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> [“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vicki-myron/until-one-morning-one-of-the-coldest-mornings-of-the-year-when-i-came/)

[Vicki Myron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vicki-myron/)

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> [“Qué va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you." "Thank you. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/qu-va-the-boy-said-there-are-many-good-fishermen-and-some-great-ones/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

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> [“In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather. Salomon’s grandparents, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-bentley/in-february-1943-eight-months-before-she-was-murdered-in-auschwitz/)

[Toni Bentley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-bentley/)

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> [“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-adams/all-through-my-life-i-ve-had-this-strange-unaccountable-feeling-that/)

[Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-adams/)

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> [“So buy a home. Find a pretty girl to marry. Settle down and start a family.” Bram shook his head. Impossible suggestions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/so-buy-a-home-find-a-pretty-girl-to-marry-settle-down-and-start-a/)

[Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/)

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> [What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-ulrich/what-i-ve-done-serves-mostly-to-show-that-nearly-all-limits-are-self/)

Marshall Ulrich

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> [“Plato and his disciples approach,' announced irreverent Teddy, as Mr. March came in with several young men and women about him; for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louisa-may-alcott/plato-and-his-disciples-approach-announced-irreverent-teddy-as-mr/)

[Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louisa-may-alcott/)

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> [“The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-jackson/the-original-paraphernalia-for-the-lottery-had-been-lost-long-ago-and/)

[Shirley Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-jackson/)

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> [“He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-told-the-boy-that-although-he-was-hu-rfano-still-he-must-cease-his/)

[Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/)

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> [“Once there was an old man who took his grandson a walk in the countryside. The old man's face was creased with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-holdsworth/once-there-was-an-old-man-who-took-his-grandson-a-walk-in-the/)

[David Holdsworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-holdsworth/)

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> [It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-watts/it-is-a-huge-amount-of-pressure-playing-someone-like-valerie-plame/)

[Naomi Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-watts/)

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> [“And Cracknut Whirrun?’ asked Drofd. ‘Straightforward. An old man up near Ustred taught me the trick of cracking a walnut in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-abercrombie/and-cracknut-whirrun-asked-drofd-straightforward-an-old-man-up-near/)

[Joe Abercrombie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-abercrombie/)

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> [“eveything that comes together, falls apart," the Old Man said. "Everything. the chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/eveything-that-comes-together-falls-apart-the-old-man-said-everything/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“The candy seller had a smile on his face: he was happy, aware of what his life was about, and ready to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-candy-seller-had-a-smile-on-his-face-he-was-happy-aware-of-what/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-buckley/i-don-t-see-people-i-don-t-see-men-and-women-at-all-when-i-see-them-i/)

[Jeff Buckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-buckley/)

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> [“Sydney's the kind of port that leaves a mark on a sailor," the old man mused. "Really?" Haakon said, wondering what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bonnie-bryant-hiller/sydney-s-the-kind-of-port-that-leaves-a-mark-on-a-sailor-the-old-man/)

Bonnie Bryant Hiller

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> [The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-s-curtis/the-passing-of-every-old-man-or-woman-means-the-passing-of-some/)

[Edward S. Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-s-curtis/)

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> [Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joss-whedon/nowadays-i-m-really-cranky-about-comics-because-most-of-them-are-just/)

[Joss Whedon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joss-whedon/)

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> [“he was an eager love slave of his son. God went out of His way to comment on the strength of this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/he-was-an-eager-love-slave-of-his-son-god-went-out-of-his-way-to/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“I lent my ear to the patient's lips - so close that I could feel his fetid, warm breath on my skin.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/i-lent-my-ear-to-the-patient-s-lips-so-close-that-i-could-feel-his/)

[Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/)

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> [“One time the scent of the old man appeared in the air: some combination of tobacco and citrus and soap. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-yoon/one-time-the-scent-of-the-old-man-appeared-in-the-air-some/)

[Paul Yoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-yoon/)

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> [“The Dire Wolf killed the Jakes,” he said. “Who’s this Dire Wolf?” I asked. Figured he was talking about someone he knew.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-truman/the-dire-wolf-killed-the-jakes-he-said-who-s-this-dire-wolf-i-asked/)

Phil Truman

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> [“My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-fante/my-secret-weapon-is-my-anger-that-s-what-stimulates-me-as-an-artist-i/)

[Dan Fante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-fante/)

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> [We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-john-mcconnell/we-need-a-type-of-patriotism-that-recognizes-the-virtues-of-those-who-2/)

Francis John McConnell

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> [“In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandeep-n-tripathi/in-life-growth-is-imminent-and-growth-without-change-is-unthinkable/)

[Sandeep N. Tripathi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandeep-n-tripathi/)

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> [ “\[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest\] In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/dialogue-between-solon-and-an-egyptian-priest-in-the-egyptian-delta/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Your son sees you hit his mother, grows up to hit women in his life as a man. You bounce from woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-nathaniel-butler/your-son-sees-you-hit-his-mother-grows-up-to-hit-women-in-his-life-as/)

[Eugene Nathaniel Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-nathaniel-butler/)

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> [“Ah, God, what an ugly city Ilium is! 'Ah, God,' says Bokonon, 'what an ugly city every city is!' Sleet was falling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/ah-god-what-an-ugly-city-ilium-is-ah-god-says-bokonon-what-an-ugly/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [“I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/i-continue-to-stare-my-eyes-missing-nothing-remembering-the-moments/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [“I’m not going to stand for it any longer," said Mr. Flood. "I’m going to put my foot down. All I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-mitchell/i-m-not-going-to-stand-for-it-any-longer-said-mr-flood-i-m-going-to/)

[Joseph Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-mitchell/)

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> [“Merda! Her lace panties had snagged on his ring, the signet ring he'd inherited from his father, Giacomo Casanova. His father had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerrelyn-sparks/merda-her-lace-panties-had-snagged-on-his-ring-the-signet-ring-he-d/)

[Kerrelyn Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerrelyn-sparks/)

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> [“The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today. The new man will have to find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-dhyan-giten/the-new-man-is-the-most-important-things-that-is-happening-in-the/)

[Swami Dhyan Giten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-dhyan-giten/)

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> [“He wants to dream like a young man with the wisdom of a old man, he wants his home and securities, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-seger/he-wants-to-dream-like-a-young-man-with-the-wisdom-of-a-old-man-he/)

[Bob Seger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-seger/)

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                        "text": "Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.",
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                        "text": "“The same Abba Theophilus, the archbishop, came to Scetis one day. The brethren who were assembled said to Abba Pambo, \"Say something to the archbishop, so that he may be edified.\" The old man said to them, \"If he is not edified by my silence, he will not be edified by my speech.\" See The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, translated and with a foreword by Benedicta Ward, SLG (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1984), p. 81.”",
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                        "text": "“--Your headache-- I am trying to imagine it Your head is in your hands The nurse is pouring pills onto a plate November again Too late Your headache It is a bird Wounded, in leaves Its sweet bird’s nest is full of pain in a distant place November There are daisies In the ruined garden, still blooming strangely And in a manic yellow hat, the old lady And the old man, dead in his bed And their daughter, the saint: Her dark, religious hair gets tangled in the branches She is screaming, grabbing While the nurses play Mozart in another room While the bats fly over the roof Snatch the black notes from the blackness Laughing You cry I am going to die I can see them through this window Their little black capes The touching ugliness of their little faces”",
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                        "text": "“A testimony is a precious gift of the Spirit, a sign that we have in fact been born again (1 John 5:1). It is a transition from darkness to light, from an aimless and wandering maneuver to a determined, Spirit-guided pursuit. We have put off skepticism and put on a believing heart. We have died as pertaining to cynicism and come alive as pertaining to gospel gladness and optimism. We have put to death the old man of doubt and quickened the new man of assurance and certitude.”",
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                        "text": "“The nobleman fell to his knees. 'Sir, come down to my son ere he die.' His old face. His love for his son. None of us spoke, the old man kneeling so. I watched your eyes. The pity that pooled, this love of the father. 'Go thy way; thy son lives,' you said. And he raised his face to you, and we could see that he believed.”",
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                        "text": "“If you two do not stop,” Kanin said without turning around, “I am going to find another road to Eden without you. James, it has been two days. Let it go.” “Whatever you say, old man,” Jackal said, holding his hands up. “Though I don’t know why you’re complaining. You got your little spawn back. You must be so proud.”",
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                        "text": "“A man will win one tourney, and fall quickly in the next. A slick spot in the grass may mean defeat, or what you ate for supper the night before. A change in the wind may bring the gift of victory.” He glanced at Ser Jorah. “Or a lady’s favor knotted round an arm.” Mormont’s face darkened. “Be careful what you say, old man.”",
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                        "text": "“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean Hollis Clark, a fellow librarian, standing dead still in the middle of the staff room. \"I heard a noise from the drop box,\" Jean said. \"What kind of noise?\" \"I think it's an animal.\" \"A what?\" \"An animal,\" Jean said. \"I think there's an animal in the drop box.\" That was when I heard it, a low rumble from under the metal cover. It didn't sound like an animal. It sounded like an old man clearing his throat. Gurr-gug-gug. Gurr-gug-gug. But the opening at the top of the chute was only a few inches wide, so that would be quite a squeeze for an old man. It had to be an animal. But what kind? I got down on my knees, reached over the lid, and hoped for a chipmunk. What I got instead was a blast of freezing air. The night before, the temperature had reached minus fifteen degrees, and that didn't take into account the wind, which cut under your coat and squeezed your bones. And on that night, of all nights, someone had jammed a book into return slot, wedging it open. It was as cold in the box as it was outside, maybe colder, since the box was lined with metal. It was the kind of cold that made it almost painful to breathe. I was still catching my breath, in fact, when I saw the kitten huddled in the front left corner of the box. It was tucked up in a little space underneath a book, so all I could see at first was its head. It looked grey in the shadows, almost like a little rock, and I could tell its fur was dirty and tangled. Carefully, I lifted the book. The kitten looked up at me, slowly and sadly, and for a second I looked straight into its huge golden eyes. The it lowered its head and sank back down into its hole. At that moment, I lost every bone in my body and just melted.”",
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                        "text": "“Qué va,\" the boy said. \"There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.\" \"Thank you. You make me happy. I hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.\" \"There is no such fish if you are still strong as you say.\" \"I may not be as strong as I think,\" the old man said. \"But I know many tricks and I have resolution.”",
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                        "text": "“In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather. Salomon’s grandparents, like many Jews, had fled Germany in the mid-nineteen-thirties, with a stash of “morphine, opium, and Veronal” to use “when their money ran out.” But Salomon’s crime that morning was not a mercy killing to save the old man from the Nazis; this was entirely personal. It was Herr Doktor Lüdwig Grünwald, not “Herr Hitler,” who, Salomon wrote, “symbolized for me the people I had to resist.”",
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                        "text": "“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was.\" \"No,\" said the old man, \"that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.\" \"Everyone?\" said Arthur. \"Well, if everyone has that perhaps it means something! Perhaps somewhere outside the Universe we know...\" \"Maybe. Who cares?\" said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. \"Perhaps I'm old and tired,\" he continued, \"but I always think that the chances of finding what out really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”",
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                        "text": "“So buy a home. Find a pretty girl to marry. Settle down and start a family.” Bram shook his head. Impossible suggestions, all. He was not about to resign his commission at the age of nine-and-twenty, while England remained at war. And he damned well wasn’t going to marry. Like his father before him, he intended to serve until they pried his flintlock from his cold, dead grip. And while officers were permitted to bring their wives, Bram firmly believed gently bred women didn’t belong on campaign. His own mother was proof of that. She’d succumbed to the bloody flux in India, a short time before young Bram had been sent to England for school. He sat forward in his chair. “Sir Lewis, you don’t understand. I cut my teeth on rationed biscuit. I could march before I could speak. I’m not a man to settle down. While England remains at war, I cannot and will not resign my commission. It’s more than my duty, sir. It’s my life. I…” He shook his head. “I can’t do anything else.” “If you won’t resign, there are other ways of helping the war effort.” “Deuce it, I’ve been through all this with my superiors. I will not accept a so-called promotion that means shuffling papers in the War Office.” He gestured at the alabaster sarcophagus in the corner. “You might as well stuff me in that coffin and seal the lid. I am a soldier, not a secretary.” The man’s blue eyes softened. “You’re a man, Victor. You’re human.” “I’m my father’s son,” he shot back, pounding the desk with his fist. “You cannot keep me down.” He was going too far, but to hell with boundaries. Sir Lewis Finch was Bram’s last and only option. The old man simply couldn’t refuse. Sir Lewis stared at his folded hands for a long, tense moment. Then, with unruffled calm, he replaced his spectacles. “I have no intention of keeping you down. Much to the contrary.” “What do you mean?” Bram was instantly wary. “I mean precisely what I said. I have done the exact opposite of keeping you down.” He reached for a stack of papers. “Bramwell, prepare yourself for elevation.”",
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                        "text": "What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?",
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                        "text": "“The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born. Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here. Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers began talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done. The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained. Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, held the black box securely on the stool until Mr. Summers had stirred the papers thoroughly with his hand. Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. Chips of wood, Mr. Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into he black box. The night before the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers' coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take it to the square next morning. The rest of the year, the box was put way, sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in Mr. Graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office. and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the Martin grocery and left there.”",
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                        "text": "“He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and so ultimately from himself. He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them. He said that while the huérfano might feel that he no longer belonged among men he must set this feeling aside for he contained within him a largeness of spirit which men could see and that men would wish to know him and that the world would need him even as he needed the world for they were one. Lastly he said that while this itself was a good thing like all good things it was also a danger. Then he removed his hands from the boy's saddle and stepped away and stood. The boy thanked him for his words but he said that he was in fact not an orphan and then he thanked the women standing there and turned the horse and rode out. They stood watching him go. As he passed the last of the brush wickiups he turned and looked back and as he did so the old man called out to him. Eres, he said. Eres huérfano.”",
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                        "text": "It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.",
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                        "text": "“And Cracknut Whirrun?’ asked Drofd. ‘Straightforward. An old man up near Ustred taught me the trick of cracking a walnut in my fist. What you do is—’ Wonderful snorted. ‘That ain’t why they call you Cracknut.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘No,’ said Yon. ‘It ain’t.’ ‘They call you Cracknut for the same reason they gave Cracknut Leef the name,’ and Wonderful tapped at the side of her shaved head. ‘Because it’s widely assumed your nut’s cracked.’ ‘They do?’ Whirrun frowned. ‘Oh, that’s less complimentary, the fuckers. I’ll have to have words next time I hear that. You’ve completely bloody spoiled it for me!”",
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                        "text": "“eveything that comes together, falls apart,\" the Old Man said. \"Everything. the chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. the cells and organs and systems that make you you - they came together, grew together and so must fall apart. the buddha knew one thing that science didn't prove for millenia after his dead: entropy increases. Things fall apart.\" We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The buddah said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. when you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. Some day no one will remember that she ever existed, i wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost, but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying away. (...) I'd tasted her boozy breath. and then something invisible snapped inside her and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. And maybe that was the only asnwer we'd ever have. She fell apart because that's what happens.”",
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                        "text": "“The candy seller had a smile on his face: he was happy, aware of what his life was about, and ready to begin a day's work. His smile reminded the boy of the old man - the mysterious old king he had met. \"This candy merchant isn't making candy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. He's doing it because it's what he wants to do, \" thought the boy. He realised that he could do the same thing the old man had done - sense whether a person was near to or far from his destiny. Just by looking at them. It's easy, and yet I'vev never done it before, he thought.”",
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                        "text": "I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.",
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                        "text": "“Sydney's the kind of port that leaves a mark on a sailor,\" the old man mused. \"Really?\" Haakon said, wondering what the man meant. \"It did on me,\" he said, opening up his shirt to display his chest. It was covered with tattoos! At the top, SYDNEY was printed in elaborate red and blue letters. Beneath that was an enticing selection of names and dates. \"Mary, 1838...Adella, 1840...\" The old sailor began laughing. \"Beatrice, 1843...Helen, 1846.\" And then finally, \"Mother.\" There was no date after \"Mother.\" \"Mothers you love forever,\" he said. Everybody laughed then, including Haakon, though the thought brought some sadness to his heart. He did love his mother forever, and he missed her as well.”",
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                        "text": "The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time.",
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                        "text": "Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody’s like “I can reverse the polarity of your ions!” Like in one big flash everybody’s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don’t understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have implants. Well, I sound like a very old man, and a cranky one, but it’s true.",
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                        "text": "“he was an eager love slave of his son. God went out of His way to comment on the strength of this affection. And it is not hard to understand. The baby represented everything sacred to his father's heart: the promises of God, the covenants, the hopes of the years and the long messianic dream. As he watched him grow from babyhood to young manhood the heart of the old man was knit closer and closer with the life of his son, till at last the relationship bordered upon the perilous. It was then that God stepped in to save both father and son from the consequences of an uncleansed love.”",
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                        "text": "“I lent my ear to the patient's lips - so close that I could feel his fetid, warm breath on my skin. \"Can you tell me where I can find Señora Jucinta Coronado?\" I asked for the last time. I was afraid he'd bite me. Instead he emitted a violently loud fart. His companions burst out laughing and clapped with joy. I took a few steps back, but it was too late: the flatulent vapours had hit me. It was then that I noticed, close to me, an old man, all hunched up, with a prophet's beard, thin hair, and fiery eyes, who was leaning on a walking stick and gazing at the others with disdain. \"You're wasting your time, young man. Juanito only knows how to let off farts, and the others can only laugh and smell them. As you see, the social structure here isn't very different from that of the outside world.”",
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                        "text": "“One time the scent of the old man appeared in the air: some combination of tobacco and citrus and soap. It was fleeting yet he was certain he had smelled it, but he did not know where it had come from, whether it had been someone at the window or from the shop itself, as though a part of the man remained in the tables, in the air of the boxes, in the fabrics themselves.”",
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                        "text": "“The Dire Wolf killed the Jakes,” he said. “Who’s this Dire Wolf?” I asked. Figured he was talking about someone he knew. He spoke in a whisper, almost reverently. “The Dire Wolf is the curse of the Downstream People, the Arkansa. He is an evil spirit of the Quapaw.” I sighed and shook my head, knowing how these old Indians liked to throw in a bunch of mythical tribal mumbo-jumbo and superstition to deflect blame from someone they knew. “Well, you know where I can find this Dire Wolf fella?” I asked. “He cannot be found,” the old man said. “Really. You have reason to believe he’s taken off to other parts?” He said nothing for a full quarter minute, his black eyes intently on mine, searching. I could see contempt in them and a sadness. Made me nervous. “No,” old Long Walker answered at last. “He has not departed. Now that he has awakened, he will kill again.”",
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                        "text": "“My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed off at America. Society. American movies. American TV. American culture. American politicians. Capitalism. I'm a little like my old man in that way only I'm a recovered drunk. He wasn't. I should have been dead years ago like my brother but somehow I dodged the bullet and it gave me something to say. Impatience and rage are always just beneath the surface for me.”",
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                        "text": "We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old \"manifest destiny\" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.",
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                        "text": "“In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be carved out by way of old ones. The old stands tall and firm and befriends the new to fall into place, with refined maturity and greater understanding and cultured admiration. It's simply pure Magic.”",
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                        "text": "“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest] In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais [...] To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world-about Phoroneus, who is called \"the first man,\" and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened. Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age.”",
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                        "text": "Your son sees you hit his mother, grows up to hit women in his life as a man. You bounce from woman to woman, leaving broken hearts and kids in your wake and as an old man dying with no love, known as the man we never knew. Ladies, your daughter sees you doin you and running the streets when your young, but when your daughter is a woman and going the wrong way and you,aged and saved, try to tell her what's right, she tells you mom, I'm doin you. Never think Your decisions and actions today won't have consequences tomorrow. ~ENB",
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                        "text": "“Ah, God, what an ugly city Ilium is! 'Ah, God,' says Bokonon, 'what an ugly city every city is!' Sleet was falling through a motionless blanket of smog. It was early morning. I was riding in the Lincoln sedan of Dr. Asa Breed. I was vaguely ill, still a little drunk from the night before. Dr. Breed was driving. Tracks of a long-abandoned trolley system kept catching the wheels of his car. Breed was a pink old man, very prosperous, beautifully dressed. His manner was civilized, optimistic, capable. I, by contrast, felt bristly, diseased, cynical. I had spent the night with Sandra. My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.”",
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                        "text": "“I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But in all that time she does not look back, and I am haunted by the visions of her struggling with unseen enemies. I sit by the bedside with an aching back and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. Allie does not notice. I understand, for her mind is gone. A couple pages fall to the floor, and I bend over to pick them up. I am tired now, so I sit, alone and apart from my wife. And when the nurses come in they see two people they must comfort. A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”",
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                        "text": "“I’m not going to stand for it any longer,\" said Mr. Flood. \"I’m going to put my foot down. All I want in this world is a little peace and quiet, and he gets me all raced up. Here a while back I heard a preacher talking on the radio about the peacefulness of the old, and I thought to myself, ‘You ignorant man!’ I’m ninety-four years old and I have never yet had any peace, to speak of. My mind is just a turmoil of regrets. It’s not what I did that I regret, it’s what I didn’t do. Except for the bottle, I always walked the straight and narrow; a family man, a good provider, never cut up, never did ugly, and I regret it. In the summer of 1902 I came real close to getting in serious trouble with a married woman, but I had a fight with my conscience and my conscience won, and what’s the result? I had two wives, good, Christian women, and I can’t hardly remember what either of them looked like, but I can remember the face on that woman so clear it hurts, and there’s never a day passes I don’t think about her, and there’s never a day passes I don’t curse myself. ‘What kind of a timid, dried-up, weevily fellow were you?’ I say to myself. ‘You should’ve said to hell with what’s right and what’s wrong, the devil take the hindmost. You’d have something to remember, you’d be happier now.’ She’s out in Woodlawn, six feet under, and she’s been there twenty-two years, God rest her, and here I am, just an old, old man with nothing but a belly and a brain and a dollar or two.\" \"Life is sad,\" said Mr. Maggiani.”",
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                        "text": "“Merda! Her lace panties had snagged on his ring, the signet ring he'd inherited from his father, Giacomo Casanova. His father had seduced hundred of women without any problems whatsoever, and he was having trouble with just one. This was the real reason he never used the Casanova name. He could never live up to his father's reputation. The old man was probably laughing in his grave. Nine circles of hell,\" Jack muttered. Hell?\" Lara asked. \"I thought I was the Holy Land.\" You're paradise. Unfortunately, I am stuck there.\" Her eyes widened. \"Stuck?\" Normally, I would love being stuck to your lovely bum, but it would look odd if we go sightseeing with my hand under your skirt. Especially in the basilica.\" She glanced down. \"How can you be stuck?\" My ring. It's caught in the lace. See?\" He moved his hand down her hip, dragging her undies down a few inches. Okay, stop.\" She bit her lip, frowning, then suddenly giggled. \"I can't believe this has happened.\" I assure you, as much as I had hoped to get your clothes off, this was not part of my original plan.\" She snorted. \"No problem. Just rip yourself loose.\" Are you sure?\" It will destroy you undies.\" She narrowed her eyes with a seductuve look. \"Rip it.\" Very well.\" He jerked his hand away, but the panties came with him. He yanked his hand back and forth, but the lacy, latex material simply stretched with him. \"Santo cielo, they are indestructible.\" Lara laughed. He continued to wage battle, but to no avail. \"They could use this material to build spaceships.”",
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                        "text": "“The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today. The new man will have to find new forms of communication, working together and sharing, because the old man and the old society will not disappear immediately. The old man will also put up a fight. The new man is a new humanity. Up to now, man has lived a pathological life, a neurotic life, a destructive life. During modern times, during the last 3000 years, there have been 6000 wars. You can not call this humanity healthy. Once in a while a Buddha, a Jesus, a Socrates, appeared, but each person is born to be a Buddha. How can I become the new man? The new man means a new consciousness, a new being. Humanity can not be saved if the new man does not arrive. Before it was not a necessity, but now it is absolutely necessary because now the war technology can destroy the whole earth. if not the new man arrives, if not people become more aware, awake and conscious, then this earth will not survive. The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart, the dimension of joy, trust, intuition, relationships, beauty, creativity and a sense of unity in love and the being, the dimension of meditation, silence, emptiness and oneness with life. The first level of the head is the dimension of ideas, intellect, hypothesis, theories, logic, analysis, rationality and dualistic thinking. The first level is the level of the mind, which means a continuous oscillation like a pendulum between the mind's memories of the past and the ideas, dreams and expectations of the future. The second level of the heart is the dimension of joy, acceptance, trust, understanding, trust, friendship, relationships, intuition, empathy, creativity, compassion, humor, playfulness and a sense of unity in love. The third level of being is the dimension of presence, awareness, meditation, silence, emptiness and wholeness. The third level is our connection with our inner life source. The new man means awareness, consciousness, love and creativity. The new man means meditation, to be in contact with our own inner source of silence. And if more people become meditative, the earth becomes filled with the fragrance of the new man.”",
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