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• Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Sleep

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• Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Thinking, Practice

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• There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

  Jules Breton

  Sun, Originality, Ecclesiastes

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• library is a beautiful old thing

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Library

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.40, A&C Black

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• It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

  Kid Cudi

  Pain, Getting Lost, Same Old Thing

  Song: Immortal, 2013

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• Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

  Paco Rabanne

  Goodbye, Women, Personality

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• People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know.

  Ricky Gervais

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  "The Office". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2001 - 2003.

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• Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

  C. S. Lewis

  Add, Development, Failing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Faces, Sun, Facts

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• I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, Want, Same Old Thing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Engineer is one who, in the world of physics and applied sciences, begets new things, or adapts old things to new and better uses; above all, one who, in that field, attains new results in the best way and at lowest cost.

  Henry R. Towne

  Science, Cost, Use

  "Industrial Engineering : An Address Delivered" by Henry R. Towne, www.stamfordhistory.org. February 24th, 1905.

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• It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

  Mike Quade

  Worry, Age, Cliche

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• As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  People, Film, Worst

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Tired, Years, Bored

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.138, Vintage

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Getting Older

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Brother, Men, Needs

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.63

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• The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Memories, Sea, Shadow

  H.P. Lovecraft (2012). “The Complete Fiction Collection vol III”, p.241, Lulu.com

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• It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

  Peter Fonda

  Simple, Age, Bees

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• And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

  Tim Burton

  Kings, Tired, Pumpkin

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• Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Soulmate, Kindness, Believe

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• Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

  Francis Bacon

  Cutting, Tools, Use

  Francis Bacon (1900). “Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum”

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• In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

  Billie Jean King

  Mean, Winning, Two

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• At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

  Seth Godin

  Needs, Alternatives, Firsts

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.93, Penguin

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• Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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