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When action grows unprofitable, gather information when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.

Barbara Garrison

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There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Hume Cronyn

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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

La Rochefoucauld

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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Victor Hugo

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

George Eliot

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Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle

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Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse Tung

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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Kahlil Gibran

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

Will Rogers

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Lao Tzu

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As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Oscar Wilde

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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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