"Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles."
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"It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts."
"One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that."
"Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?"
"I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do."
"For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy."
"None can hold fortune still and make it last."
"We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly."
"The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts."
"The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world."
"Whoever thought to name a candy bar Butterfinger has either never seen Last Tango In Paris or seen it far too many times."
"The average permanent lasts about four months."
"Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for."
"The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last."
"Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe."
"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."
"If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months."
"I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street."
"Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master."
"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."