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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. — Mark Twain
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,… — John Dewey
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was… — Anatole France
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. — Ellen Glasgow
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the… — Lawrence Durrell
The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. — Simon Wiesenthal
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
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. — Homer
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. — Laurence Olivier
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.… — Lillian Gish
Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by… — Barbara Cartland
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if… — George Carlin
Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present. — Chip Conley
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person.… — Pope Benedict XVI
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. — Thomas Jefferson

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