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• It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Men, Unique

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Air, Dust

  'Four Quartets' 'Little Gidding' (1942) pt. 2

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• My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Opportunity, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

  Epicurus

  Men, Chance, Belief

  "Dancing into old age" by Daniel Klein, www.cnn.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Men, Lazy People

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• "You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

  Robert Southey

  Father, Men, Locks

  "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 1 (1799) See Carroll 9

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• The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Humility, Men

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• At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Real, Men, Bears

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• Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

  James Anthony Froude

  Beautiful, Summer, Children

  James Anthony Froude (1907). “Essays”

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• Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

  Hesketh Pearson

  God, Believe, Men

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• Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Childhood, Age

  Elie Wiesel (1990). “From the kingdom of memory: reminiscences”, Pocket Books

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Men, Frightened

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Taken, Dark

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Strong, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• ...an old man is twice a child.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Aging

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.842

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• Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

  Chief Seattle

  Dream, Native American, Heart

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• When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

  Paul Westerberg

  Writing, Boys, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Memories, Men, Long

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• Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, America, Safety

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

  Grantland Rice

  War, Men, Rooms

  "Two Sides of War" l. 1 (1930) See Herbert Hoover 5

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• I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

  Richard Avedon

  Men, People, Tree

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Children, Real, Teenager

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.154, North Atlantic Books

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