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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
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But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
Michael Jackson
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Stop
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
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Believe
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Everybody
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin
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Age
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Best
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Doing
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don't want to judge it or anything – but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry Rollins
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Age
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Life
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Me
At my advanced age – I'm now an octogenarian – I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Age
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People
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Picture
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Montesquieu
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Age
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Corruption
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Mature
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
Boris Johnson
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Age
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Childhood
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History
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
John Henrik Clarke
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Age
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History
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Long
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift
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Age
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Great
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People
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