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Quote by Jean Paul
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. – Jean Paul

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. – Jean Paul

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul

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Life
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. – Marian Wright Edelman

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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. – Jackson Pollock

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Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! Shes a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades. – Alison Sweeney

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God. – Billy Graham

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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

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Sure, I suffered a lot. But its not like the end of the world and its not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and Im able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. – Ben Affleck

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