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title: "Inspiring Old man Wisdom"
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> [Some people think that the Syrian people are from another planet. On the contrary, I think that we all live inside the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osama-alomar/some-people-think-that-the-syrian-people-are-from-another-planet-on/)

[Osama Alomar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osama-alomar/)

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> [“Hoddan began suddenly to see real possibilities. This was not a direct move toward the realization of his personal ambitions. But on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-leinster/hoddan-began-suddenly-to-see-real-possibilities-this-was-not-a-direct/)

[Murray Leinster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-leinster/)

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> [“In South Texas I saw three interesting things. The first was a tiny girl, maybe ten years old, driving in a 1965…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-portis/in-south-texas-i-saw-three-interesting-things-the-first-was-a-tiny/)

[Charles Portis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-portis/)

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> [I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/narayanan-krishnan/i-saw-a-very-old-man-literally-eating-his-own-human-waste-out-of/)

[Narayanan Krishnan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/narayanan-krishnan/)

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> [“When he was gone the men on the bench began to laugh. One of them rose to better see the map. Es…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-he-was-gone-the-men-on-the-bench-began-to-laugh-one-of-them-rose/)

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

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> [Halt snorted derisively. "Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be," he replied. "It's a fine thing when an old man like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-flanagan/halt-snorted-derisively-battleschool-evidently-isn-t-what-it-used-to/)

[John Flanagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-flanagan/)

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> [“An empty hat and raincoat floated at the center of the diagram in Unwin’s mind. Beside them was a dress filled with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jedediah-berry/an-empty-hat-and-raincoat-floated-at-the-center-of-the-diagram-in/)

[Jedediah Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jedediah-berry/)

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> [“But what is extraordinary is that Modigliani's models resemble each other; it is not a matter of an assumed style or some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-ehrenburg/but-what-is-extraordinary-is-that-modigliani-s-models-resemble-each/)

[Ilya Ehrenburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-ehrenburg/)

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> [“I wish I had a stone for the knife,” the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/i-wish-i-had-a-stone-for-the-knife-the-old-man-said-after-he-had/)

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

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> [“... the Scripture is like one big, unbroken story about people who decided to follow God and ended up failing almost as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecrae-moore/the-scripture-is-like-one-big-unbroken-story-about-people-who-decided/)

[Lecrae Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lecrae-moore/)

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> [“...for the first time Rincewind saw the troll. It wasn’t half so bad as he had imagined. Umm, said his imagination after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/for-the-first-time-rincewind-saw-the-troll-it-wasn-t-half-so-bad-as/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [“I'll tell you something banal.We're emotional illiterates.And not only you and I-practically everybody,that's the depressing thing.We're taught everything about the body and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingmar-bergman/i-ll-tell-you-something-banal-we-re-emotional-illiterates-and-not/)

[Ingmar Bergman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingmar-bergman/)

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> [“Escalus, Prince of Verona. Paris, a young Nobleman, kinsman to the Prince. Montague,}Heads of two Houses at variance with each other. Capulet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/escalus-prince-of-verona-paris-a-young-nobleman-kinsman-to-the-prince/)

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

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> [“Woman!" said the litle man testily. "Get out of my light. You are interfering with my reserarch!" You and your research!" said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ende/woman-said-the-litle-man-testily-get-out-of-my-light-you-are/)

[Michael Ende](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ende/)

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> [“She came across as charming and efficient, but problems erupted as soon as she started. Two of my best people threatened to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-carlisle/she-came-across-as-charming-and-efficient-but-problems-erupted-as/)

[Kate Carlisle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-carlisle/)

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> [Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/father-time-is-not-always-a-hard-parent-and-though-he-tarries-for/)

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

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> [“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-shakespear/yet-again-the-heroine-of-the-novel-is-a-lovely-young-woman-thwarted/)

[Olivia Shakespear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-shakespear/)

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> [“Now, tell me, my dear, I said, what are you crying about? About the years that are gone, Mr. Betteredge," says Rosanna…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/now-tell-me-my-dear-i-said-what-are-you-crying-about-about-the-years/)

[Wilkie Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilkie-collins/)

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> [“None of this fits together? How very true! A woman you leave behind to go to the movies, an old man to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/none-of-this-fits-together-how-very-true-a-woman-you-leave-behind-to/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/they-sped-by-a-pack-of-sea-lions-lounging-on-the-docks-and-she-swore/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-powell/you-just-don-t-make-decisions-about-what-you-re-going-to-be-like-when/)

[John Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-powell/)

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> [“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/when-the-gap-between-the-world-of-the-city-and-the-world-my/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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> [“We had different lives. We come from different places." "Surely ye do. And you got different bodies, too. That's what marriage is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pamela-morsi/we-had-different-lives-we-come-from-different-places-surely-ye-do-and/)

[Pamela Morsi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pamela-morsi/)

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> [The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eddings/the-old-man-was-peering-intently-at-the-shelves-i-ll-have-to-admit/)

[David Eddings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eddings/)

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> [“The Blessed I am in the darkness and alone. In front of me stands the door. When I open it, I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrud-kolmar/the-blessed-i-am-in-the-darkness-and-alone-in-front-of-me-stands-the/)

[Gertrud Kolmar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrud-kolmar/)

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> [A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-keller/a-man-on-a-hiking-trip-through-the-blue-ridge-mountains-came-to-the/)

[James Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-keller/)

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> [I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-honeyman/i-wanted-to-write-about-the-transformative-power-of-small-acts-of/)

[Gail Honeyman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-honeyman/)

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> [The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristin-hannah/the-falling-apart-of-a-man-s-life-should-make-more-noise-it-should/)

[Kristin Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristin-hannah/)

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> [“From the past they turn to the future. Ah! at the close of the last century, the future seemed a thing tangible,—it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/from-the-past-they-turn-to-the-future-ah-at-the-close-of-the-last/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

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> [You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more…My friends, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/standing-bear/you-have-driven-me-from-the-east-to-this-place-and-i-have-been-here-2/)

[Standing Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/standing-bear/)

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> [“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/what-more-could-he-need-this-old-man-whose-little-leisure-was-divided/)

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

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> [“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hafiz-shirazi/when-shall-i-get-to-kiss-thee-i-asked-by-all-means-you-can-forever/)

[Hafiz Shirazi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hafiz-shirazi/)

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> [That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/that-s-a-nice-song-said-young-sam-and-vimes-remembered-that-he-was/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [“He was a good guy, my old man: simple, old-fashioned. Physically, he was built like a feather-weight, and he wore these thick,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ozzy-osbourne/he-was-a-good-guy-my-old-man-simple-old-fashioned-physically-he-was/)

[Ozzy Osbourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ozzy-osbourne/)

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> [“It’s a very small bow. Who is it for?” “Turtle,” Many Horses replied with a mischievous smile. “At my age, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-anderson/it-s-a-very-small-bow-who-is-it-for-turtle-many-horses-replied-with-a/)

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

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> [The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyn-nofziger/the-reason-this-country-continues-its-drift-toward-socialism-and-big/)

[Lyn Nofziger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyn-nofziger/)

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> [An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/an-emperor-knows-how-to-govern-when-poets-are-free-to-make-verses/)

[Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/)

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> [An old man was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them,A battle is raging inside me ...it is a terrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/asad/an-old-man-was-teaching-his-grandchildren-about-life-he-said-to-them/)

[Asad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/asad/)

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> [“I think it is effective to constrict your anus 100 times, dent your navel 100 times in succession everyday. You can do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiroyuki-nishigaki/i-think-it-is-effective-to-constrict-your-anus-100-times-dent-your/)

[Hiroyuki Nishigaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiroyuki-nishigaki/)

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> [We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dmitri-shostakovich/we-should-think-more-about-it-and-accustom-ourselves-to-the-thought/)

[Dmitri Shostakovich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dmitri-shostakovich/)

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                        "text": "Some people think that the Syrian people are from another planet. On the contrary, I think that we all live inside the same boat, on the same planet. And the Syrian war affects everybody now, the whole world. There are Syrian refugees everywhere now. But it looks like nobody cares about civilians in Syria. They are suffering. There are hundreds of victims - innocent women, children, and old men who are hurt or killed every day - and no one cares about them.",
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                        "text": "“Hoddan began suddenly to see real possibilities. This was not a direct move toward the realization of his personal ambitions. But on the other hand, it wasn't a movement away from them. Hoddan suddenly remembered an oration he'd heard his grandfather give many, many times in the past. \"Straight thinkin',\" the old man had said obstinately, \"is a delusion. You think things out clear and simple, and you can see yourself ruined and your family starving any day! But real things ain't simple! They ain't clear! Any time you try to figure things out so they're simple and straightforward, you're goin' against nature and you're going to get 'em mixed up! So when something happens and you're in a straightforward, hopeless fix—why, you go along with nature! Make it as complicated as you can, and the people who want you in trouble will get hopeless confused and you can get out!”",
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                        "text": "“In South Texas I saw three interesting things. The first was a tiny girl, maybe ten years old, driving in a 1965 Cadillac. She wasn't going very fast, because I passed her, but still she was cruising right along, with her head tilted back and her mouth open and her little hands gripping the wheel. Then I saw an old man walking up the median strip pulling a wooden cross behind him. It was mounted on something like a golf cart with two spoked wheels. I slowed down to read the hand-lettered sign on his chest. JACKSONVILLE FLA OR BUST I had never been to Jacksonville but I knew it was the home of the Gator Bowl and I had heard it was a boom town, taking in an entire county or some such thing. It seemed an odd destination for a religious pilgrim. Penance maybe for some terrible sin, or some bargain he had worked out with God, or maybe just a crazed hiker. I waved and called out to him, wishing him luck, but he was intent on his marching and had no time for idle greetings. His step was brisk and I was convinced he wouldn't bust. The third interesting thing was a convoy of stake-bed trucks all piled high with loose watermelons and cantaloupes. I was amazed. I couldn't believe that the bottom ones weren't crushed under all that weight, exploding and spraying hazardous melon juice onto the highway. One of nature's tricks with curved surfaces. Topology! I had never made it that far in mathematics and engineering studies, and I knew now that I never would, just as I knew that I would never be a navy pilot or a Treasury agent. I made a B in Statics but I was failing in Dynamics when I withdrew from the field. The course I liked best was one called Strength of Materials. Everybody else hated it because of all the tables we had to memorize but I loved it, the sheared beam. I had once tried to explain to Dupree how things fell apart from being pulled and compressed and twisted and bent and sheared but he wouldn't listen. Whenever that kind of thing came up, he would always say - boast, the way those people do - that he had no head for figures and couldn't do things with his hands, slyly suggesting the presence of finer qualities.”",
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                        "text": "I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them what was available. They had idli, which I bought and gave to the old man. Believe me, I had never seen a person eating so fast, ever. As he ate the food, his eyes were filled with tears. Those were the tears of happiness.",
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                        "text": "“When he was gone the men on the bench began to laugh. One of them rose to better see the map. Es un fantasma, he said. Fantasma? Sí, sí. Claro. Cómo? Cómo? Porque el viejo está loco es como. Loco? Billy stood looking at the map. No es correcto? he said. The man threw up his hands. He said that what they beheld was but a decoration. He said that anyway it was not so much a question of a correct map but of any map at all. He said that in that country were fires and earthquakes and floods and that one needed to know the country itself and not simply the landmarks therein. Besides, he said, when had that old man last journeyed to those mountains? Or journeyed anywhere at all? His map was after all not really so much a map as a picture of a voyage. And what voyage was that? And when? Un dibujo de un viaje, he said. Un viaje pasado, un viaje antigun. He threw up one hand in dismissal. As if no more could be said. Billy looked at the other three men on the bench. They watched with a certain brightness of eye so that he wondered if he were being made a fool of. But the one seated at the right leaned forward and tapped the ash from his cigarette and addressed the man standing and said that as far as that went there were certainly other dangers to a journey than losing one's way. He said that plans were one thing and journeys another. He said it was a mistake to discount the good will inherent in the old man's desire to guide them for it too must be taken into account and would in itself lend strength and resolution to them in their journey. The man who was standing weighed these words and then erased them in the air before him with a slow fanning motion of his forefinger. He said that the jovenes could hardly be expected to apportion credence in the matter of the map. He said that in any case a bad map was worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside those instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place himself in their care. He said that to follow a false map was to invite disaster. He gestured at the sketching in the dirt. As if to invite them to behold its futility. The second man on the bench nodded his agreement in this and said that the map in question was a folly and that the dogs in the street would piss upon it. But man on the right only smiled and said that for that matter the dogs would piss upon their graves as well and how was this an argument? The man standing said that what argued for one case argued for all and that in any event our graves make no claims outside of their own simple coordinates and no advice as to how to arrive there but only the assurance that arrive we shall. It may even be that those who lie in desecrated graves-by dogs of whatever manner-could have words of a more cautionary nature and better suited to the realities of the world. At this the man at the left who'd so far not spoke at all rose laughing and gestured for the two boys to follow and they went with him out of the square and into the street leaving the disputants to their rustic parkbench tertulia.”",
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                        "text": "Halt snorted derisively. \"Battleschool evidently isn't what it used to be,\" he replied. \"It's a fine thing when an old man like me can sleep comfortably in the open while a young boy gets all stiff and rheumatic over it.\" Horace shrugged. \"Be that as it may,\" he replied, \"I'll still be glad to sleep in a bed tonight.\" Actually, Halt felt the same way. But he wasn't going to let Horace no that.",
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                        "text": "“But what is extraordinary is that Modigliani's models resemble each other; it is not a matter of an assumed style or some superficial trick of painting, but of the artist's view of the world. Zborowski with the face of a good-natured, shaggy sheepdog; the lost Soutine; the tender Jeanne in her shift, an old man, a model, somebody with a mustache: all are like hurt children, albeit some of the children have beards or gray hair. I believe that the world seemed to Modigliani like an enormous kindergarten run by very unkind adults.”",
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                        "text": "“I wish I had a stone for the knife,” the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. “I should have brought a stone.” You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”",
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                        "text": "“... the Scripture is like one big, unbroken story about people who decided to follow God and ended up failing almost as much as they succeeded. After God told Abraham that he was going to have millions of kids, the old man literally laughed in God's face. Jacob was a lying cheat before he met God at Bethel. And he was a lying cheat afterward too. These are two of Israel's greatest patriarchs. Moses was a murderer, a doubter, an excuse-maker. he was chosen to lead God's people out of slavery. David was \"a man after God's own heart.\" But he was also an adulterer. His son, Solomon, was the wisest man who ever lived. But he had hundreds of wives. And Jesus' disciples were all flawed in their own way - from Thomas, the doubter, to Peter, the hothead. With such a long list of people who both followed God and stumbled constantly, why would we assume our experiences would be any different?”",
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                        "text": "“...for the first time Rincewind saw the troll. It wasn’t half so bad as he had imagined. Umm, said his imagination after a while. It wasn’t that the troll was horrifying. Instead of the rotting, betentacled monstrosity he had been expecting Rincewind found himself looking at a rather squat but not particularly ugly old man who would quite easily have passed for normal on any city street, always provided that other people on the street were used to seeing old men who were apparently composed of water and very little else. It was as if the ocean had decided to create life without going through all that tedious business of evolution, and had simply formed a part of itself into a biped and sent it walking squishily up the beach. (…) How does he hold himself together, his mind screamed at him. Why doesn’t he spill?”",
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                        "text": "“I'll tell you something banal.We're emotional illiterates.And not only you and I-practically everybody,that's the depressing thing.We're taught everything about the body and about agriculture in Madagascar and about the square root of pi, or whatever the hell it's called,but not a word about the soul.We're abysmally ignorant,about both ourselves and others.There's a lot of loose talk nowadays to the effect that children should be brought up to know all about brotherhood and understanding and coexistence and equality and everything else that's all the rage just now.But it doesn't dawn on anyone that we must first learn something about ourselves and our own feelings.Our own fear and loneliness and anger.We're left without a chance,ignorant and remorseful among the ruins of our ambitions.To make a child aware of it's soul is something almost indecent.You're regarded as a dirty old man.How can you understand other people if you don't know anything about yourself?Now you're yawning,so that's the end of the lecture.”",
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                        "text": "“Woman!\" said the litle man testily. \"Get out of my light. You are interfering with my reserarch!\" You and your research!\" said the woman. \"Who cares about that? The important thing is my health elixir. Those two outside are in urgent need of it.\" \"Those two,\" said the man irritably, \"will be far more in need of my help and advice.\" \"Maybe so,\" said the little woman. \"But not until they are well. Move over, old man!\"... Atreyu cleared his throat to call attention to his presence... \"He's already well,\" said the little man. \"Now it's my turn.\" \"Certainly not! the little woman hissed. \"He'll be well when I say so. It'll be your turn when I say it's your turn.”",
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                        "text": "“She came across as charming and efficient, but problems erupted as soon as she started. Two of my best people threatened to quit, so I took her off the project.” I could barely watch as she laughed and yakked like an intimate friend of both Ian’s and Baldacchio’s. On tonight of all nights, the opening of Abraham’s exhibition. I had to wonder, was she here because of me? Everyone in the business knew he’d been my teacher and mentor. Was I completely paranoid? I would’ve loved to pursue the topic of Minka’s shortcomings and find out how in the world she’d finagled a job at the Covington in the first place, but Abraham’s friend Doris interrupted us just then, grabbing Abraham’s arm and giving it a vigorous shake. “Now, what were you yelling about, old man?” she said. I almost snorted. “Doris Bondurant,” Abraham said formally, “I’d like to introduce my former assistant and now my greatest competition, Brooklyn Wainwright. Brooklyn, this is my old friend Doris Bondurant.” “Watch who you’re calling old, buster,” she said, and elbowed Abraham in”",
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                        "text": "Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.",
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                        "text": "“Yet again, the heroine of the novel is a lovely young woman thwarted in her creative capacities by marriage to an old man; yet again, she is freed from this match and rewarded with a handsome young kindred spirit. Art does not always imitate life; often, it improves upon life. What didn’t happen for Shakespear in her life could happen for her heroines in her novels.”",
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                        "text": "“Now, tell me, my dear, I said, what are you crying about? About the years that are gone, Mr. Betteredge,\" says Rosanna quietly. My past life still comes back to me sometimes. Come, come, my girl, I said, your past life is all sponged out. Why can't you forget it? \"She took me by one of the lappets of my coat. I am a slovenly old man, and a good deal of my meat and drink gets splashed about on my clothes. Sometimes one of the women, and sometimes another, cleans me of my grease. The day before, Roseanna had taken out a spot for me on the lappet of my coat, with a new composition, warranted to remove anything. The grease was gone, but there was a little dull place left on the nap of the cloth where the grease had been. The girl pointed to that place, and shook here head. The stain is taken off, she said. But the place shows, Mr. Betteredge--the place shows!”",
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                        "text": "“None of this fits together? How very true! A woman you leave behind to go to the movies, an old man to whom you have stopped listening, a death that redeems nothing, and then, on the other hand, the whole radiance of the world. What difference does it make if you accept everything? Here are three destinies, different and yet alike. Death for us all, but his own death to each. After all, the sun still warms our bones for us.”",
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                        "text": "They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' \"Did you see that?\" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. \"Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend.\" \"Annabeth,\" Frank said. \"You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter?\" Percy frowned. \"No. Before that.",
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                        "text": "You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.",
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                        "text": "“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I'd turn to my other great love, which was pulp adventure fiction. Despite the fact that [he] would have had nothing but scorn and loathing for all of those violent and garish magazines, there was a sort of prevailing morality in them that I'm sure he would have responded to. The world of Doc Savage and The Shadow was one of absolute values, where what was good was never in the slightest doubt and where what was evil inevitably suffered some fitting punishment. The notion of good and justice espoused by Lamont Cranston with his slouch hat and blazing automatics seemed a long way from that of the fierce and taciturn old man I remembered sitting up alone into the Montana night with no company save his bible, but I can't help feeling that if the two had ever met they'd have found something to talk about. For my part, all those brilliant and resourceful sleuths and heroes offered a glimpse of a perfect world where morality worked the way it was meant to. Nobody in Doc Savage's world ever killed themselves except thwarted kamikaze assassins or enemy spies with cyanide capsules. Which world would you rather live in, if you had the choice?”",
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                        "text": "“We had different lives. We come from different places.\" \"Surely ye do. And you got different bodies, too. That's what marriage is about, Meggie-gal, making differences intertwine into something whole and new.\" Meggie didn't want to argue. \"He didn't love me, Pa,\" she said. \"I'll believe that when I see coons a-taking up farming,\" the old man answered. He raked his hair with his hands helplessly. \"What do ye think love is, Meggie. Do you think it's heart pounding and breath stealing and verse reciting?\" he asked. \"Yes, ma'am, there is some of that involved, but mostly love is quiet and caring and friendlylike. It's wanting to tell that person something afore you whisper it to another soul. It's not being alone.”",
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                        "text": "The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.",
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                        "text": "“The Blessed I am in the darkness and alone. In front of me stands the door. When I open it, I am bathed in light. There are a father, a mother and sister, A dog, which, dumb, still barks in friendliness. How can I lie, and how can I say That I, hidden there in darkness, have not come to harm them? I drag myself over the threshold. Snow blossoms in my eyes. I saw him bowing to me courteously; How much that hurt me. How could my heart find peace, When round it raced the voice of the old man? I live in coldness. I dried my tears and went To where the man was eating with his family. It was so calm and loving a reception. I felt the violins sounding inside me At first, so sweetly, so gently. They will never sound again, when I have finished. Fear drenched my hands. Beneath me I could almost taste my womb. A sneer seemed to say: 'Have you no shame? What have you done with the wedding-ring on your finger? Terrible thief, where did you hide your courage? Does the nakedness of my right hand mean so little to me?' I felt so poor and naked. I wriggled in my chair And trembled to think what I must do. Pity clawed at my heart and shook my body Like a tree in a winter field blown by the wind Shedding leaves. I told myself it was time to go, Scolding my wan, faded self for my little worries. Pleased with myself again, I steeled myself for the torture. The joy of it! Oh, how I want to be Just like an animal and be happy again! I sharpen my claws with a knife. It is still night, and that thing called shame, I may not let it show itself. I know the train that tears through the woods. I go out to the unfeeling rails. Weary, I am glad to go to bed, Running across two flat sticks of iron.”",
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                        "text": "A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: \"Lived here all your life?\" \"Nope,\" the old mountaineer replied patiently. \"Not yet.\"",
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                        "text": "I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop and make sure he's OK. Or even smaller acts than that, though - buying someone a cup of coffee, telling them their hair looks nice - sometimes you don't realise the transformative effect on people. I wanted to celebrate that.",
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                        "text": "The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quiet, this falling apart of his life, as silent as the last beat of an old man's heart. A quiet, echoing thud, and then...nothing.",
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                        "text": "“From the past they turn to the future. Ah! at the close of the last century, the future seemed a thing tangible,—it was woven up in all men's fears and hopes of the present. At the verge of that hundred years, Man, the ripest born of Time, (“An des Jahrhunderts Neige, Der reifste Sohn der Zeit.” “Die Kunstler.”) stood as at the deathbed of the Old World, and beheld the New Orb, blood-red amidst cloud and vapour,—uncertain if a comet or a sun. Behold the icy and profound disdain on the brow of the old man,—the lofty yet touching sadness that darkens the glorious countenance of Zanoni. Is it that one views with contempt the struggle and its issue, and the other with awe or pity? Wisdom contemplating mankind leads but to the two results,—compassion or disdain. He who believes in other worlds can accustom himself to look on this as the naturalist on the revolutions of an ant-hill, or of a leaf. What is the Earth to Infinity,—what its duration to the Eternal? Oh, how much greater is the soul of one man than the vicissitudes of the whole globe! Child of heaven, and heir of immortality, how from some star hereafter wilt thou look back on the ant-hill and its commotions, from Clovis to Robespierre, from Noah to the Final Fire. The spirit that can contemplate, that lives only in the intellect, can ascend to its star, even from the midst of the burial-ground called Earth, and while the sarcophagus called Life immures in its clay the everlasting!”",
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                        "text": "You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more…My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here…I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land…When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us…My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.",
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                        "text": "“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”",
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                        "text": "“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a heavy price,’ I said. ‘It’s a fair exchange of one so fair,’ she said. ‘What lips are worthy for your mouth and lips?’ I asked. ‘Only the discerning can this secret know,’ she answered. ‘Don’t worship idols, be with the Truth,’ I said. ‘In the Way of Love, both are allowed,’ she said. I said, ‘The tavern helps to heal the heart.’ ‘Blessed are those who heal the lonely heart,’ she answered. ‘It’s not religion, the priestly robe, the wine,’ I said. ‘But to the gnostic both lead to the Divine,’ she answered. ‘What use to an old man of youthful lips?’ I asked. ‘By such sweet kissing, he grows young!’ she answered. ‘When shall the bridegroom embrace the bride?’ ‘When the stars are that way inclined.’ I said, ‘The prayer of Hafiz is for His glory.’ ‘This is the prayer of angels too, in heaven,’ she answered.”",
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                        "text": "That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.",
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                        "text": "“He was a good guy, my old man: simple, old-fashioned. Physically, he was built like a feather-weight, and he wore these thick, black Ronnie Barker glasses. He would say to me, ‘You might not have a good education, but good manners don’t cost you anything.’ And he practised what he preached: he’d always give up his seat on the bus for a woman or help an old lady across the road. A good man. I really miss him.”",
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                        "text": "“It’s a very small bow. Who is it for?” “Turtle,” Many Horses replied with a mischievous smile. “At my age, there is little pleasure in life. It is time I watched my grandson learn to shoot. I and my friends are placing bets. I have two horses that say he will shoot Warrior in the thigh. Old Man thinks it will be in the rump. Want to wager?” Hunter’s smile turned wry. “I don’t think so. If I recall, I told Warrior that I would teach Turtle how to shoot.” Many Horses nodded, then quirked an eyebrow. “So it’s your thigh I’m wagering on, eh? Hmm. Sometime today, bring your yellow-hair by to meet me.” “Why?” “She may want to bet with us.” “My yellow-hair?” Many Horses grinned. “If Turtle aims a little high, think of all the grief he might save her.” Hunter gave a snort of disgust and left the lodge.”",
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                        "text": "The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.",
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                        "text": "An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.",
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