To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.Lillian Smith
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
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