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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,… — Robert Burns
There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will… — May Sarton
The old echoes are long in dying. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. — Euripides
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,… — Arnold Bennett
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body. — Raquel Welch
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At… — Ray Bradbury
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. — Pablo Picasso
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man. — Hannibal
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. — William S. Burroughs
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. — Bruce Barton
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new… — Freeman Dyson
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.… — William J. Clinton
What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our… — Carl Sagan
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. — George Bernard Shaw
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and… — Bill Gates
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. — Adrienne Rich
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior,… — Don Henley
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate… — Tony Robbins
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Logan Pearsall Smith
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. — Tennessee Williams

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