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“Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.”
Helen Hayes
“You shape your own destiny.”
Chet Atkins
“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”
B. F. Skinner
“The human brain of all ages is plastic, that is, it is shaped by what you do, what you learn and what you think, ... There is strong evidence that, particularly in the over-50s, the degree to which you retain your mental faculties depends on a number of simple behavioural factors.”
Ian Robertson
“Some of these fine days I swear I'll throw away all my heavy luggage in the shape of hopes, and expectations, and walk the rest of the way with free limbs.”
Geraldine Jewsbury
“The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation”
Daniel Ellsberg
“We're in really good shape for the finals and we're really looking forward to it.”
Ricky Ponting
“The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).”
Marilyn Monroe
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
Dr. Seuss
