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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. -

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. – Matthew Arnold

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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese Proverb

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There is one quality more important than “know-how” and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is “know-what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954

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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. – Thomas Fuller

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Occasionally ask, “What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. – E. M. Cioran

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When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. – Julia Gregson

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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

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All that I know I learned after I was thirty. – Georges Clemenceau

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