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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.: Frank Moore Colby
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.: Belle Livingstone
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
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Friends are born, not made.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
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We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Badè's Life and Letters of John Muir: June 9, 1872 letter to Miss Catharine Merrill, from New Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.: Stanley Walker
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2004
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.: Meister Eckhart
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.: Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926