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Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell
It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want… — John Irving
When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play… — Eric Partridge
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of… — Art Buchwald
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a… — Hermann Hankel
The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be. — Unknown Author
Ji-Sung Park is probably not as young as he was when he arrived at Old Trafford all those years ago. — Ray Houghton
I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no… — Kate Winslet
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
There's only one place you want to be and that's Wembley, Old Trafford or Anfield. — Mick Channon
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of… — Robert Adams
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre. — Perry Groves
Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing… — Paul Ince
It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation. — Gary Neville
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without… — Louis Agassiz
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not… — Peter Singer
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to… — Peter Singer
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to… — Wendell Berry
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing… — Desmond Morris

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