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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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George Sand (1804 - 1876)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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Andy Rooney (1919 - )
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
A full cup must be carried steadily.
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English Proverb
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
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Langston Coleman
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.
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Anonymous
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
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Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Silence is a text easy to misread.
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A. A. Attanasio, 'The Eagle and the Sword'
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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