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"here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale."
"We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?"
"Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital."
"November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it."
"I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving."
"An addict never stops growing. Stupider."
"We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life."
"You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives."
"It doesn't matter what you achieve, if you don't keep growing you'll feel dead."
"We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life."
"In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity."
"Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one."
"I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young."
"Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks."
"It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together."
"I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going."
"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face."
"Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties."
"The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours."
"Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains."
