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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Bill Watterson Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Fred Astaire Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • André Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Barack Obama On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • John McCain On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • A. E. Housman On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
    Janis Joplin
    American singerer (1943 - 1970)
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  • Ban Ki-moon On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Levant Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Cate Blanchett Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Frederick Douglass One and God make a majority.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Rosamond Lehmann One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Source: Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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