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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen

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May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age. – Minna Thomas Antrim, “To Harder Times,” A Book of Toasts, 1902

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Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better. – Michelle Malkin

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Its hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but Im not discouraged. – Jane Fonda

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