"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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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"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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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"War settles nothing."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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