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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

—Marcus Aurelius

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

—Anaïs Nin

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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

—John Sladek

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

—Jim Bishop

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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

—Eric Hoffer

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The future is much like the present, only longer.

—Dan Quisenberry

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In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

—Andy Warhol

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

—Albert Einstein

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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

—William Shakespeare

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The better part of valour is discretion.

—William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

—Seneca

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

—Rene Descartes

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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

—Elizabeth Taylor

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It is a great thing to know our vices.

—Cicero

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