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Martha Graham
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
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Alexander Hamilton
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Unknown
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.
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Andrew Schneider
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.
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Niccola Sebastiani
If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance.
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Thomas Carlyle
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
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Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
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Ernest Benn
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
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Herb Caen
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
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Joseph Conrad
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
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