Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired. . . … - Samuel Johnson

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I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

Samuel Johnson

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired. . . . Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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Our aspirations are our possibilities.

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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

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I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

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At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my studio by myself since 1968 on up. And the thing is that my social life consisted of being involved in organizations like that. I would get people to come and speak, and speak myself and that kind of stuff.

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John Fletcher

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire; Sit close and draw the table nigher; Be merry and drink wine that is old, A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold.

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Simone de Beauvoir

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

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Arabella Weir

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

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