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title: "Inspiring Old man Thoughts"
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> [“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-castaneda/anything-is-one-of-a-million-paths-therefore-you-must-always-keep-in/)

[Carlos Castaneda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-castaneda/)

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> [“This passenger was wondering why he had stolen a big grey suitcase on four wheels. Was it because he could and because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-jonasson/this-passenger-was-wondering-why-he-had-stolen-a-big-grey-suitcase-on/)

[Jonas Jonasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-jonasson/)

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> [The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-world-is-an-illusion-why-is-it-unreal-because-none-of-the/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

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> [“Has the old man lost his freaking mind? Would I ask him to share something he’s worked his ass off for? Would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-chase/has-the-old-man-lost-his-freaking-mind-would-i-ask-him-to-share/)

[Emma Chase](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-chase/)

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> [Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrilyn-kenyon/menoeceus-is-a-great-name-astrid-for-an-old-man-or-a-feminine-hygiene/)

[Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrilyn-kenyon/)

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> [I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-believe-what-really-happens-in-history-is-this-the-old-man-is/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/each-living-creature-is-said-to-be-alive-and-to-be-the-same-2/)

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

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> [“You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-connelly/you-know-what-my-father-said-about-innocent-clients-he-said-the/)

[Michael Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-connelly/)

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> [“Concealing himself from his father's wrath, behind the barn with wick turned low and his face two inches from the rough sawtooth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-d-estleman/concealing-himself-from-his-father-s-wrath-behind-the-barn-with-wick/)

[Loren D. Estleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-d-estleman/)

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> [“Dear bullies, see that young boy you made fun of for crying? Last night his best friend committed suicide. See the girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marija-not-sure-if-she-penned-it-but-i-snagged-it-from-her-i-love-it/dear-bullies-see-that-young-boy-you-made-fun-of-for-crying-last-night/)

[Marija Not sure if she penned it but I snagged it from her I love it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marija-not-sure-if-she-penned-it-but-i-snagged-it-from-her-i-love-it/)

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> [“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-child-comes-home-and-the-parent-puts-the-hooks-in-him-the-old-man/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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> [Let's keep in mind that Donald Trump didn't win because of himself. He won in spite of himself. A quarter of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-dowd/let-s-keep-in-mind-that-donald-trump-didn-t-win-because-of-himself-he/)

[Matthew Dowd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-dowd/)

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> [“The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-homosexuals-wrote-as-if-they-were-women-the-timid-ones-wrote/)

[Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/)

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> [Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster/take-an-old-man-s-word-there-s-nothing-worse-than-a-muddle-in-all-the/)

[E. M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster/)

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> [Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norbert-elias/very-often-people-who-live-in-a-ghetto-accept-some-of-the/)

[Norbert Elias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norbert-elias/)

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> [We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-winslow-johnson/we-are-dying-of-preconceptions-outworn-rules-decaying-flags-venomous/)

[Josephine Winslow Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-winslow-johnson/)

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> [ “Fumio to dinner. We look at old photos. I turn up one of \[Na­ka­no\] Yuji at work—part-time laborer, standing there for forty… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-richie/fumio-to-dinner-we-look-at-old-photos-i-turn-up-one-of-na-ka-no-yuji/)

[Donald Richie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-richie/)

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> [The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-l-cohen/the-museum-is-full-of-interesting-things-all-kinds-of-paintings-are/)

[Marvin L. Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-l-cohen/)

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> [My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivien-leigh/my-friends-when-i-was-young-were-always-older-than-i-was-and-i-ve/)

[Vivien Leigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivien-leigh/)

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> [I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal "Woodstock"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-bradford/i-write-most-of-my-first-drafts-on-an-old-manual-typewriter-a-really/)

[Arthur Bradford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-bradford/)

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> [“Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bram-stoker/within-stood-a-tall-old-man-clean-shaven-save-for-a-long-white-2/)

[Bram Stoker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bram-stoker/)

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> [“This wretched Inn, where we scarce stay to bait, We call our Dwelling-Place: We call one Step a Race: But angels in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-cowley/this-wretched-inn-where-we-scarce-stay-to-bait-we-call-our-dwelling/)

[Abraham Cowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-cowley/)

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> [“In the darkness I thought of Fyodorovich, deep in the Kolyma taiga. It was the eleventh of October, and already, I imagined,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fen-montaigne/in-the-darkness-i-thought-of-fyodorovich-deep-in-the-kolyma-taiga-it/)

[Fen Montaigne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fen-montaigne/)

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> [It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gichin-funakoshi/it-is-important-that-karate-can-be-practiced-by-the-young-and-old-men/)

[Gichin Funakoshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gichin-funakoshi/)

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> [“Over time, and sentence uttered long and loud enough becomes fixed. Becomes a truth. Provided, of course, you can outlast the dissent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-bowden/over-time-and-sentence-uttered-long-and-loud-enough-becomes-fixed/)

[Oliver Bowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-bowden/)

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> [“Not long after coming to Detroit, I heard of a museum of machinery in Dearborn which had been set up by Henry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diego-rivera/not-long-after-coming-to-detroit-i-heard-of-a-museum-of-machinery-in/)

[Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diego-rivera/)

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> [“No one could imagine how a man could survive one winter alone and exposed in the woods, never mind decades of them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/no-one-could-imagine-how-a-man-could-survive-one-winter-alone-and/)

[Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/)

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> [“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-william-polidori/bah-bah-cried-the-old-man-petulantly-human-nature-is-the-same-in-all/)

[John William Polidori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-william-polidori/)

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> [What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/what-early-tongue-so-sweet-saluteth-me-young-son-it-argues-a/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-revolution-had-many-of-these-men-proportioned-to-the-epoch-in/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [“Desmond ushered the man inside. He was stooped and ugly, with an unkempt beard and unwashed clothes, yet Father greeted him pleasantly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-r-martin/desmond-ushered-the-man-inside-he-was-stooped-and-ugly-with-an/)

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

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> [“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hokusai-katsushika/i-have-been-in-love-with-painting-ever-since-i-became-conscious-of-it/)

[Hokusai Katsushika](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hokusai-katsushika/)

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> [“Bob,” she said, “I love you so and want you with me, but you are lying to me, and you are lying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hunter/bob-she-said-i-love-you-so-and-want-you-with-me-but-you-are-lying-to/)

[Stephen Hunter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hunter/)

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> [“I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old. "Think of it," I said to Laura when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-lynch-williams/i-m-my-mother-s-first-child-born-when-she-was-almost-fourteen-years/)

[Carol Lynch Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-lynch-williams/)

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> [“I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-eluard/i-have-said-three-words-too-many-too-bad-i-take-them-back-i-add-them/)

[Paul Éluard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-eluard/)

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> [“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien/good-morning-said-bilbo-and-he-meant-it-the-sun-was-shining-and-the/)

[J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien/)

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> [“He could only trust in the Great Ones that all would be well for her there. He feared her adoptive father might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/he-could-only-trust-in-the-great-ones-that-all-would-be-well-for-her/)

[Catherine Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-anderson/)

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> [“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/they-said-of-him-about-the-city-that-night-that-it-was-the/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [“energy so abundantly that be could talk with a voice sounding as a large bell. Being asked by Wang the secret of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/energy-so-abundantly-that-be-could-talk-with-a-voice-sounding-as-a/)

[Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/)

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> [“In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherwood-anderson/in-the-beginning-when-the-world-was-young-there-were-a-great-many/)

[Sherwood Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherwood-anderson/)

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                        "text": "“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.”",
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                        "text": "“This passenger was wondering why he had stolen a big grey suitcase on four wheels. Was it because he could and because the owner was a lout, or because the suitcase might contain a pair of shoes and even a hat? Or was it because the old man didn’t have anything to lose? Allan really couldn’t say why he did it. When life has gone into overtime it’s easy to take liberties, he thought, and he made himself comfortable in the seat. So far, Allan was satisfied with the way the day had developed. Then he closed his eyes for his afternoon nap.”",
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                        "text": "The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?",
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                        "text": "“Has the old man lost his freaking mind? Would I ask him to share something he’s worked his ass off for? Would he let someone else drive his 1962 cherry Mustang convertible? Would he open his bedroom door and let some other guy screw his wife? Okay, that was too far. I take it back—considering his wife is my mother. Forget I ever referred to my mother and screwing in the same sentence. That’s just…wrong. On so many levels. But for the love of God, tell me you see my point.”",
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                        "text": "Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won’t be something that sounds like meningitis. (Zarek) You keep that up and next time you’ll be the one birthing it, and don’t mess with me, bucko, I have connections in that department. A pregnant man is not an impossibility in my neighborhood. (Astrid)",
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                        "text": "I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.",
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                        "text": "Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.",
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                        "text": "“You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty.\" Levin nodded thoughtfully. \"The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients,\" I said. \"I'm not sure I do, either.”",
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                        "text": "“Concealing himself from his father's wrath, behind the barn with wick turned low and his face two inches from the rough sawtooth page, Young Crawford had read of these atrocities in Beadle's Dime Library and fantasized about \"calling out\" the brutal old man who had sired him, \"throwing down\" on him with the \"hogleg\" he wore high on his hip, and blasting him into hell; after which he would go \"on the scout,\" separating high-interest banks and arrogant railroad barons from their soiled coin and distributing it among their victims, or failing that into his own pockets and saddle pouches and living the \"high Life\" in saloons and \"dance halls\" where beautiful women in brief costumes admired his straight legs and square jaw and told him of the men who had \"ruined\" them (he knew not just how, only that the act was disgraceful and its effects permanent), whereupon he sought the blackguards out and deprived them of their lives. There was usually profit involved; invariably the men were thieves who lived in close proximity to their \"ill-gotten booty,\" and didn't it say somewhere in Scripture that robbing a thief was no sin? If it didn't, it should have.”",
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                        "text": "“Dear bullies, see that young boy you made fun of for crying? Last night his best friend committed suicide. See the girl you called fat? She's starving herself. See the old man you just made fun of cause of the ugly scars? He fought for our country. Post this if you're against bullying. I bet 95% of you won't.”",
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                            "name": "Marija Not sure if she penned it but I snagged it from her I love it"
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                        "text": "“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not love. I am not saying that there is not such a thing as love. I am merely pointing to something which is different from love but which sometimes goes by the name of love. It may well be that without this thing which I am talking about there would not be any love. But this thing in itself is not love. It is just something in the blood. It is a kind of blood greed, and it is the fate of a man. It is the thing which man has which distinguishes him from the happy brute creation. When you got born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.”",
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                        "text": "Let's keep in mind that Donald Trump didn't win because of himself. He won in spite of himself. A quarter of his voters voted for Donald Trump believing he wasn't presidential and he didn't have the temperament, but they had hope that he would grow into the office and become more presidential. That doesn't seem to have happened, and I don't think it will happen for a 71-year-old man.",
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                        "text": "“The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most poetic ones indulged in pure bestiality and the purest ones in perversions. We were haunted by the marvelous tales we could not tell. We sat around, imagined this old man, talked of how much we hated him, because he would not allow us to make a fusion of sexuality and feeling, sensuality and emotion.”",
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                        "text": "Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.",
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                        "text": "Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese minority the Burakumin, which was pure Japanese in descent, but which was concerned with dirty work: leather work, cadavers, and some other things.There was a famous story of an old man who asked: 'Do you yourself believe you are the same as the Japanese?' And the outsider said: 'I do not know, we are dirty.' This kind of conscience was never there in the surroundings in which I lived. One always felt as someone whom could be proud of, being both German and Jewish.",
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                        "text": "“Fumio to dinner. We look at old photos. I turn up one of [Na­ka­no] Yuji at work—part-time laborer, standing there for forty years now. I wondered why I still think so much about him, now that I have not seen him for decades, now that he is an old man, if even alive. Fumio said, “Because, he was the last Japanese.” It’s true. Yuji had all of the old virtues—he saw a connection between himself and nature, the way things are. He believed in authority, though he was sly about evading it; was polite, decent, honest to the extent that he did not get caught; willing to do his best and allow himself to be much imposed on; fond of pleasure, and probably drank himself to death. And, more, he embodied an attitude now extinct—he accepted without bitterness, and made the most of what was left. I don’t know if this defines old-fashioned Japanese-ness, but it defines Yuji.”",
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                        "text": "The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.",
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                        "text": "My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.",
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                        "text": "I write most of my first drafts on an old manual typewriter, a really old one. It's a big black metal \"Woodstock\" from about 1920. I try to write everything down at once, in one sitting. The longer stories in this collection are divided up into sections. Each section represents a different sitting, a different idea for the same story.",
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                        "text": "“Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door”",
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                        "text": "“This wretched Inn, where we scarce stay to bait, We call our Dwelling-Place: We call one Step a Race: But angels in their full enlightened state, Angels, who Live, and know what ‘tis to Be, Who all the nonsense of our language see Who speak things, and our words, their ill-drawn pictures, scorn, When we, by a foolish figure, say, Behold an old man dead! then they Speak properly, and cry, Behold a man-child born!”",
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                        "text": "“In the darkness I thought of Fyodorovich, deep in the Kolyma taiga. It was the eleventh of October, and already, I imagined, the first light snows had dusted the area around Sunny Lake. I pictured the old man sitting alone in the sun by the lakeshore, smoking a Prima and gazing skyward as the last of the whooper swans flew south, squawking and trumpeting as they went.”",
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                        "text": "It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike. That is, since there is no need for a special training place, equipment, or an opponent, a flexibility in training is provided such that the physically and spiritually weak individual can develop his body and mind so gradually and naturally that he himself may not even realize his own great progress.",
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                        "text": "“Over time, and sentence uttered long and loud enough becomes fixed. Becomes a truth. Provided, of course, you can outlast the dissent and silence your opponents. But should you succeed - and remove all challengers - then what remains is, by default, now true. Is it truth in some objective sense? No. But how does one ever achieve an objective point of view? The answer is you don't. It is literally, physically impossible. There are too many variables. Too many fields and formulae to consider. We can try, of course. We can inch closer and closer to a revelation. But we'll never reach it. Not ever . . . And so I have realized, that so long as The Templar exist, they will attempt to bend reality to their will. They recognize there is no such thing as an absolutely truth - or if there is - we are hopelessly underequipped to recognize it. And so in its place, they seek to create their own explanation. It is the guiding principle of their so-named \"New World Order\"; To reshape existence in their own image. It is not about artifacts. Not about men. These are merely tools. It's about concepts. Clever of them. For how does one wage war against a concept? It is the perfect weapon. It lacks a physical form yet can alter the world around us in numerous, often violent ways. You cannot kill a creed. Even if you kill all of its adherents, destroy all of its writings - these are a reprieve at best. Some one, some day, will rediscover it. Reinvent it. I believe that even we, the Assassins, have simple re-discovered an Order that predates the Old Man himself . . .”",
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                        "text": "“Not long after coming to Detroit, I heard of a museum of machinery in Dearborn which had been set up by Henry Ford but which, at that time, had not acquired its present popularity. The well-to-do people of fashionable Grosse Pointe and the Detroit workers as well ignored Greenfield Village, as this museum area was called. Almost nobody had any use for it, and I found out about it only through hearing people laugh at \"old man Ford\" for \"wasting\" millions on his \"pile of scrap iron.\" These gibes excited my curiosity, and I asked my friends how I could arrange a visit and what was the earliest time I might go. \"Any time you like,\" they answered, not troubling to conceal their disdain.”",
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                        "text": "“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret or discovered, arising from the triumphs of ungoverned passion;—from hatred,—lust,—revenge,—or mere blood-thirstiness. The crime in which this piece of ruthless machinery had its rise, was done in my own lifetime, in a place which I weekly and calmly traverse. The perpetrator went down to the grave, I will not say unpunished, but undiscovered. No one pitied the victim,—no one cursed the assassin. The whole story is, and is better, buried in oblivion.”",
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                        "text": "What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:",
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                        "text": "“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death.”",
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                        "text": "“Desmond ushered the man inside. He was stooped and ugly, with an unkempt beard and unwashed clothes, yet Father greeted him pleasantly and asked his name. “Yoren, as it please m’lord. My pardons for the hour.” He bowed to Arya. “And this must be your son. He has your look.” “I’m a girl,” Arya said, exasperated. If the old man was down from the Wall, he must have come by way of Winterfell. “Do you know my brothers?” she asked excitedly. “Robb and Bran are at Winterfell, and Jon’s on the Wall. Jon Snow, he’s in the Night’s Watch too, you must know him, he has a direwolf, a white one with red eyes. Is Jon a ranger yet? I’m Arya Stark.” The old man in his smelly black clothes was looking at her oddly, but Arya could not seem to stop talking. “When you ride back to the Wall, would you bring Jon a letter if I wrote one?” She wished Jon were here right now. He’d believe her about the dungeons and the fat man with the forked beard and the wizard in the steel cap.”",
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                        "text": "“I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai’s ‘The Art Crazy Old Man”",
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                        "text": "“Bob,” she said, “I love you so and want you with me, but you are lying to me, and you are lying to yourself. I can hear it in your voice, and if you don’t get it settled in a way that satisfies you, it will suck the pleasure out of the peace you’ve earned. I know you. You are samurai, dog soldier, marine fool, crazy bastard, marshal of Dodge, commando, the country-western Hector. You are all of those things. They are your nature. The girls and I are just where you park when you’re not warring. You love us, yes you do, but war is your life, it’s your destiny, it’s your identity. My advice, old man, is win your war. Then come home. Or maybe you’ll get killed. That would be a shame and a tragedy, and the girls and I will weep for years. But that is the way of the warrior and we have the curse upon us of loving the last of them.”",
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                        "text": "“I'm my mother's first child, born when she was almost fourteen years old. \"Think of it,\" I said to Laura when I turned twelve. \"I'm almost Mother Sarah's age when she was married.\" Laura looked at me, her squinty eyes even more narrowed. \"You could have your own old man as a husband,\" she said. \"Shut up,\" I had said. And she had laughed.”",
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                        "text": "“I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death, especially in Greece, where I sawed up the palette of an old man who stalked my lady friends right up to my camp bed. I messed up the hairdo of the greatest criminal in Chaldea. For all that I did not have to make use of my daughter native to the lower part of her father's vision, all the plains as far as the eye can see which eat hampers full of mother of pearl.”",
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                        "text": "“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” “All of them at once,” said Bilbo. “And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain. If you have a pipe about you, sit down and have a fill of mine! There’s no hurry, we have all the day before us!” Then Bilbo sat down on a seat by his door, crossed his legs, and blew out a beautiful grey ring of smoke that sailed up into the air without breaking and floated away over The Hill. “Very pretty!” said Gandalf. “But I have no time to blow smoke-rings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.” “I should think so—in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them,” said our Mr. Baggins, and stuck one thumb behind his braces, and blew out another even bigger smoke-ring. Then he took out his morning letters, and began to read, pretending to take no more notice of the old man. He had decided that he was not quite his sort, and wanted him to go away. But the old man did not move. He stood leaning on his stick and gazing at the hobbit without saying anything, till Bilbo got quite uncomfortable and even a little cross. “Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water.” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.”",
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                        "text": "“He could only trust in the Great Ones that all would be well for her there. He feared her adoptive father might abuse her, but there was no way he could protect her when she wasn’t at his side. His chest tightened. What if the song did not come to pass? What if the great circle of fate never brought her back to him? He clenched his hands into fists, struggling with himself not to go after her. His woman, yet not his woman. Did she know she took with her a little bit of his heart? With a heavy sigh, he swung onto his black. “Are you ready?” Old Man asked. “No. Let her reach her wooden walls, eh? So she has no fear.”",
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                        "text": "“They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe---a woman---had asked at the foot of the same scaffold, not long before, to be allowed to write down the thoughts that were inspiring her. If he had given an utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: \"I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. \"I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. I see the good old man, so long their friend, in ten years' time enriching them with all he has, and passing tranquilly to his reward. \"I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both. \"I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, brining a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place---then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement---and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and faltering voice. \"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”",
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