• Seven Decades

    Seven Decades is an offshoot from Oldsters View which is a news aggregation site specializing in digging out oddities in the news and putting them in a convenient place for you to read them. I try to avoid editorializing on Oldsters View and to keep my own random thoughts to a minimum. So Seven Decades will be the place for that. I hope you will find it interesting, and maybe, sometimes, relevant to your life.

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Quote for politics, religion and business

Posted on June 11, 2008 by oldstersview

Passive acceptance of [a] teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive [...]

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Quotes

Posted on May 9, 2008 by oldstersview

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift

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    I’m putting this site together more for myself than for others. When you reach a certain age you begin to take a close look at what has happened in your life, what it all may mean, the structure of the “reality” you find yourself in and what you are doing here. Although I believe I know some of the answers I hope to discover more answers by writing. Although it may end up that way, in the beginning there will be not much structure, just things as they occur to me. Want to go for a ride?

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