132 Oldest Quotes for You to Enjoy

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics Man Conservative Superior Philosophy Moral Moral Philosophy Exercises Selfishness Modern Justification Engaged Search Oldest

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P. Lovecraft

Fear Unknown Kind Strongest Emotion Mankind Oldest

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. Ric Flair

Ride Space Park Longest Line Mountain May Oldest

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought. Pythagoras

Words Thought Those Most Yes Which Shortest Require Oldest

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe. John Henrik Clarke

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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. Edward R. Murrow

Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers. Brendan I. Koerner

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I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future. Alan Arkin

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I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent. Davy Crockett

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We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. Kevin Rudd

Art Great History Nation Our Ancient Aboriginal Rock Continuing Cave Cultures Link Australians Antiquity Human Us Human History Fortunate Europe Paintings Oldest Among Deepest

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. Michael J. Fox

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't. Mike Mills

Knows Always Younger Oldest Things Sibling

I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it. Ann Dowd

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The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Anne Rice

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Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first. Antony Johnston

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The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. Arthur Levitt

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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from. Beau Bridges

Some Only Come Friends Place Actor Oldest

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