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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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Wisdom
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Education
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. – Sylvia Plath

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Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. – Giovanni Papini

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I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy! – Kris Carr

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Happiness breathes when you do. – Terri Guillemets

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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. – Anna Akhmatova

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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. – Sun Tzu

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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter

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In order to be realist you must believe in miracles. – David Ben-Gurion

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