We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. Ive just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I dont know what put that bug in me at a young age. – Holly Madison

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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: I couldve been Bond. Buy me a drink. Thats the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: I was Bond. Now buy me a drink. – Daniel Craig

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Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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