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The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

~Elie Metchnikoff

Topics: Age Aged Appearance Back Bent Body Description Detailed Dry Face Familiar Generally Hairs Head Known Laborious Make Memory Most Necessary Old Old Age Pale Persons Skin Slow Too Traits Weak Well Well Known Whilst White

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Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.

~Elif Safak

Topics: Addicted Bad Because Familiar Go Just Just Because Let Go Like Relationship Ways Writing You

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To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Barbarism Begin Causes Civilization Deal Extent Fact Familiar Great Great Extent Incomplete Modification Must Partial Prime Problem Recognizing Solution Superficial True War

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You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

~Eliot Ness

Topics: Become Death Disturb Down Eventually Face Familiar Looking Nerves Never Nothing Realized Something Think Which You Your

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Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Counterparts Educations Elite Familiar Innately Leave Public Public School School Standardized Students Test Unprepared Which

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I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

~Elizabeth Marvel

Topics: Familiar Family Foreign Nothing Profession

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The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Anyone Arab Bomb Developing Familiar Gulf Iran Leaders Meets Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Privately Should Someone Stop View Weapons Who

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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

~Elon Musk

Topics: About Account Am Both Facebook Familiar Hate Page Personal Stuff Them Twitter Use Writing I Am

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Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier.

~Emilia Clarke

Topics: Easier Familiar Feels Flow Got Lyrical Makes More Oddly Slightly Speak Than Way

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The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

~Emilio Estevez

Topics: About Anything Because Connected Couple Dealing Directed Dreadful Familiar Fantasy First Just Me Pictures Really Were Worlds Writing Wrote

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