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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
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Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
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Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
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Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
On War (1832) -
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7 -
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
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All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.
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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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