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Victor Hugo
Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)
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George Burns
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.
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E. M. Forster
How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
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Lawrence George Durrell
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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Joan Winmill Brown
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit.
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Unknown
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.
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Robert Benchley
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
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Israel Salanter
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
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Valdemar W. Setzer
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
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