The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. -Golda Meir

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You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. - Maude Adams

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. — Virginia Woolf

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The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. ― Kiran Desai

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We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

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Even paranoids have real enemies. - Golda Meir

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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

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