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  • Ben Folds Good morning, son
    In twenty years from now
    Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
    And I can tell you 'bout today
    And how I picked you up and everything changed.
    Lyrics Still Fighting It, Rockin the Suburbs (2001)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Napoleon Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Hitopadesa Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Bradley Chicho Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • William Shakespeare Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Roxana Robinson Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
    This is My Daughter p.320
    Roxana Robinson
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • Betty Wright Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All of them.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Tryon Edwards Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
    If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
    Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street?
    If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
    Working On A Dream (2009) The Wrestler
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Castle He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Francis Bacon He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord George Byron He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alexander the Great Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Richard Bach Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Richard Bach Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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