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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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When you finally learn how to act, you're too old for the good parts.
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When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The diaries of Anais Nin (1977) Vol. 5 -
When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
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