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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your han

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Hitch your wagon to a star. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. – William Arthur Ward

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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. – Martha Reeves

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