"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
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"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"
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"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."
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"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."
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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
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"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
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"Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends"
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
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