#tween

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ↗

— James Thurber

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Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#erupt #goes #nations #result #saying

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ↗

— Mark Twain

#cat #differences #lie #lives #most

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

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Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #century #come #comfortable #done

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. ↗

— Simone Weil

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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another. ↗

— Barry White

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