"Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed."

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Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.9, Open Road Media

Doris Grumbach

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“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”
“You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.”
“This is the United States of America. It means we respond to our fellow Americans in times of crisis and emergency and disaster.”

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“Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!”
“Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.”
“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.”

Source : David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press
“It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.”

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