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- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
- No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - ), Still Life With Woodpecker
- Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
- Author Unknown
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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