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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Arrogant Discovered His Idea
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles Melt Cowering Minds
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Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

Will Quietly Peacefully Joyously
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Age Computation Even Good
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Above Career Elevate Even
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

Outlook Estimate Yourself Value
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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Men Idolized Built Their
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Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Happiness Holding Someone Arms
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True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

True Faith Means Holding
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

Happen First Instant But
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

True Literature More Than
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every Fashions Follows Generation
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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Against Old Rebel Without
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Doctor Told Stop Having
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Almost Bed Before Gone
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

One Day Year Old
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Play Golden Pond I
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

Physical Like Comedy Old
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

People Intelligent Well Known
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I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Captivity Dancing Like Little
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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Back First Getting Master
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

Grew Up Women House
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes Television Storyline Told
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Age Brief Days Encounters
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Ability Anyone Beauty Grows
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Anyone Battlefield Before Dying
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Avoid Back Could Free
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Holding Letting Makes Some
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Catch Fire Further Go
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Absence Acquainted Affliction Am
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

After Cold Disease Faint
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Exceptions Knows Man Old
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Because Grow Men Old
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Always Children Express Invariably
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Advice Bad Bad Example Example
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Detail Happened How How Many Times
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Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Attention Bold Gestures Grand
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The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

Above Better Evolving Grow
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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Down Hold Movement Our
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The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Bars Down Encircle Guards
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Gun Hand Make Only
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It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
Compare Hard Love New
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'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.

Bring Concerned Far Fold
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Blood Change Great Habit
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Always First First Time He
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Days Friend Greeting His
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Cheerful Far Forty Forty Years
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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