"Now that I am sixty, I see why……" — John Updike
"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Currency Quotes
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no…
— John Burroughs
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I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts…
— David Cameron
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Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to…
— David Cameron
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Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in…
— Kris Carr
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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency…
— Bob Dole
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Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
— Barack Obama
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Friendship reaches well above all currency.
— Robert M. Hensel
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond…
— Thomas A. Edison
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency.…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Legacy is greater than currency.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
— Abraham Verghese
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