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I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
Excess
Terence

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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Selfishness
William M. Thackeray

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Truth
Margaret Thatcher

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Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
Death and Dying
Dylan Thomas

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Business
Dylan Thomas

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Truth
Hunter S. Thompson

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Conventionality
Henry David Thoreau

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
Age and Aging
Henry David Thoreau

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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Ignorance
Thucydides

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It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.
Right and Rightness
Tiorio

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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Attitude
Count Leo Tolstoy

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If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
World
Horace Traubel

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Dress
Anthony Trollope

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Age and Aging
Leon Trotsky

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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Politicians and Politics
Harry S Truman

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Truth
Harry S Truman

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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Battles
Barbara Tuchman

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Heart
Turkish Proverb

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Age and Aging
Tina Turner

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Courage
Star Trek TV series

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Trials
Mark Twain

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Fools and Foolishness
Mark Twain

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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
Youth
Mark Twain

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Age and Aging
Mark Twain

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Optimism
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun