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Wisdom comes by disillusionment. - George Santayana

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. – George Santayana

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. – Alan Kay

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You cant sweep other people off their feet, if you cant be swept off your own. – Clarence Day

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I do interviews because its a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I dont have any great wisdom. – Parker Stevenson

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We dont receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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I saw Taxi Driver, and Taxi Driver kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, You talkin to me? You talkin to me? Who the hell else are you talkin to? Thats the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting. – Michael Biehn

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I never thought Id spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity Id never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really. – Sadie Frost

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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. – Khalil Gibran

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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patients hopes are the physicians secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins

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