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  • As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
  • We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
  • The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
  • The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
  • A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
  • The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
  • One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
  • Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aristide Briand A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • William Shakespeare A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our strength grows out of our weakness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Stein Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Franz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Carlo Collodi A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
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    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland A mind grows by what it feeds on.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Maxwell Planck A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Maxwell Planck
     
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  • Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Alexander Maclaren All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Otway Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
    Thomas Otway
    English dramatist (1652 - 1685)
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  • Brad Feld As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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