A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed ...
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. D...
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life...
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
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Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern
that it will not someday be antiquated.
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
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I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
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Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
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Make your life a mission, not an intermission.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
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The future is the past returning through another gate.
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Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
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Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
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