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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish t

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. – John Adams

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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter. – Mark Twain

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Its only at this age that I can say the word art without flinching. – Mira Nair

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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? – George Bernard Shaw

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In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic. – Graham Swift

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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