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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

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I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. РBetsy Ca̱as Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

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Whatever you are, try to be a good one. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. – Sarah Bernhardt

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