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Quote by Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Were saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors whove already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation. – Paul Ryan

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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and thats the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. – Ringo Starr

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

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I think that we are at a point in our country where were trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. – Nikki Haley

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Im sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I dont regret any of it. – Marc Maron

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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. – John Morley

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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief. – Georg Simmel

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