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Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place. -- Anne Cameron
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves. -- Ben Bova
New links must be forged as old ones rust. -- Jane Howard
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. -- Nikki Giovanni
When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones. -- John Goodman
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -- Charles Kettering
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. -- Dee Hock
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. -- George Bernard Shaw
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If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones. -- Marc Guggenheim
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief. -- David Copperfield
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. -- Yo-Yo Ma
The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. -- John Shelton Reed
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy. -- Martha Beck
Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever. -- Thomas Friedman
We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food. -- Linda M. Godwin
I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones. -- Mark Frost
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. -- James Buchan
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones. -- Junot Diaz
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones. -- Dorothy Hamill
Old fools are greater fools than young ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Remember me for these days, not the old ones. -- Mitch Albom
Time does not heal old wounds. New ones do. -- Kalynn Campbell
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out. -- Helen Keller
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New words are always being born and old ones fading away. -- Patience Strong
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. -- Dana Gioia
Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones. -- Brian Tracy
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. -- George Washington
I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones. -- Andrew Bird
No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up. -- Joachim Schmid
One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones. -- P.D. Ouspensky
The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones. -- John Wooden
Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old. -- Simon Sinek
Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust. -- George R. R. Martin
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. -- Wallace Stegner
We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones! -- Zosia Mamet
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place -- Pearl S. Buck
If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure. -- David "Doc" Searls
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Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous. -- Swami Vivekananda
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. -- Oscar Wilde
The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones. -- Miles Davis
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising. -- Humphrey Bogart
Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. -- Muhammad Ali
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. -- Mario Monti
It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan Perlis
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades -- Nathan Lane
Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones. -- Amit Kalantri
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now. -- Artie Shaw
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades. -- Nathan Lane
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. -- Benjamin Franklin
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. -- Astra Taylor
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. -- Daphne du Maurier
It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents. -- Guy Lafleur
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. -- Edward Norton Lorenz
With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. -- Sharon Begley
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. -- Emma Goldman
If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. -- Peter Deunov
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.] -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end. -- Joyce Meyer
Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones. -- Sharon Jones
New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form. -- Carl Jung
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. -- R. D. Laing
Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away. -- Elif Safak
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. -- Fujiwara no Teika
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.... -- Denise Levertov
Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm. -- Joel A. Barker
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you. -- Joan Rivers
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Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones. -- Lurlene McDaniel
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. -- Arthur Golden
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. -- Tom Peters
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it? -- Harlan Ellison
In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous. -- Jane Grigson
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. -- Jean Anouilh
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born. -- Neal Stephenson
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones. -- Faye Dunaway
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones. -- Pauline Oliveros
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. -- Peter Wright
Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones. -- Dalai Lama
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital. -- Tim Rice
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. -- Will Thomas
A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. -- Willa Cather
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. -- Abraham Lincoln
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. -- Salman Rushdie
I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding. -- Patrick Stump
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. -- Jose Mourinho
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay
Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods! -- Friedrich Kellner
I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man. -- Big Sean
The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones. -- Jane Espenson
New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate. -- Joan Robinson
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones. -- Bill McKibben
At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety. -- Andrew Curry
Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence. -- Dallas Willard
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends. -- William Faulkner

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