Oh, Issyk-Kul, my Issyk-Kul--my unfinished song! Why did I have to remember that day when I came here with Asel and stopped on the same rise, right above the water? Everything was the same. The blue-and-white waves ran up the yellow shore holding hands. The sun was setting behind the mountains, and at the far end of the lake the water was tinged with pink. The swans wheeled over the water with excited, exultant cries. They soared up and dropped down on outspread wings that seemed to hum. They whipped up the water and started wide, foaming circles. Everything was the same, only there was no Asel with me. Where are you, my slender poplar in a red kerchief, where are you now?

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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We have to protect our mind and our body, rather than just go out there and do what the world wants us to do. ― Simone Biles

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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.- Dolly Parton

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You do not find the happy life. You make it. — Camilla Eyring Kimball

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. — Lewis Carroll

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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ― Nelson Mandela

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I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.' - David Hasselhoff

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