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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun t

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James Baldwin

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin

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Children
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

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Education
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

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A proverb is an ornament to language. – Persian Proverb

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[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else… – Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,

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I really didn’t say everything I said. – Yogi Berra

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The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. – Latin Proverb

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Sometime theyll give a war and nobody will come. – Carl Sandburg

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Ive been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. Its great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and its all fixed so its a scary thing. – Damien Hirst

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Future

You come to a point in your life when you really dont care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself. – Evel Knievel

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Life