The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle. – Dale Carnegie

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.

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They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! ― Dr. Seuss

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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

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The first time I ever put on a cowboy hat for a video a lot of people on my team was like, 'Are you sure? You know, we don't want people we think we country.' I'm like, 'It's cute! I don't care what people think.' Megan Thee Stallion

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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth ― Mike Tyson

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My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious. ― Mike Tyson

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