"Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth."

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Source : John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.1744, e-artnow

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“When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.”
“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.”
“A lion never roars after a kill.”

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin
“Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.”

Source : Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.12, Sports Illustrated
“The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.”

Source : "Meaning in history: W. Dilthey's thoughts on history and society".
“If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.”
“One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.”
“Some children are wiser than adults.”

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