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"There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous."
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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works."
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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

"I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland."
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"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."

"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."

"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."

"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

"It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed."

"But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash."

"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."

"When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning."
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