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Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole.

—Devin J. Monroe

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

—Horace Walpole

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The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

—Henry Drummond

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

—Helen Keller

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

—Matthew Arnold

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

—Saint Augustine

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You cannot step into the same river twice.

—Heraclitus

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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

—Gian Carlo Menotti

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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

—Elizabeth Bowen

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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

—Walt Disney

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People change and forget to tell each other.

—Lillian Hellman

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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

—William Shakespeare

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

—Thomas Aquinas

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Enough is as good as a feast.

—John Heywood

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The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

—Myrtle Reed

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