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“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?”
Dale Carnegie
“Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.”
Colman McCarthy
“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
Will Durant
“The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others.”
W. H. Auden
“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”
Dan Brown
“I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe.”
Whitney Houston
“Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.”
Bryan Appleyard
“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity”
Father James Keller
“Dad, thanks to TV, I can't remember what happened 8 minutes ago. No, really, it's a serious problem. Ha, ha, ha! What're we laughing about?”
Nancy Cartwright
“They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to”
Margaret Atwood
