"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

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"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

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"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

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"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."

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"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

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"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

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"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."