“As I grow older I grow calm. If I feel what are perhaps an old man's apprehensions, that competition from new races will cut deeper than working men's disputes and will test whether we can hang together or can fight.”
1910s, "Law and the Court" (1913)
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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
Bill Downs (1914–1978) American journalist
Stated on "Edward R. Murrow with the News" on December 26, 1952.
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist
Source: All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day
William A. Patterson (1899–1980) President of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966
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““Men work together,” I told him from the heart,
“Whether they work together or apart.””
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
The Tuft of Flowers http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section2.rhtml <br class="br">General sources
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
Source: Letters, p. 250
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Optimism
Poetry quotes, Poems of Pleasure (1900)
Context: I find a rapture linked with each despair,
Well worth the price of anguish. I detect
More good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.
“I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.”
Bernard Hopkins (1965) American boxer
As quoted at "Calzaghe nicks round one" at BBC Sport (8 February 2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A32124377 <br class="br">2000s, 2008
