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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.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.: 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.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.: Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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A full cup must be carried steadily.: English Proverb
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If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.: Langston Coleman
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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.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: 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.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.: Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
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Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.: 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.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Silence is a text easy to misread.: A. A. Attanasio, 'The Eagle and the Sword'
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Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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