"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."

-- Gloria Stuart

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“They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1977). “Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)”
“The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind.”
“We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.”
“The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,”
“I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the state was poor and when citizens wanted to set something up, they needed to collect money themselves. Historically, this was different in Europe. There used to be a strong state, a monarch or a king. He provided money.”
“As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.”
“Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.”
“Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be persistent. That's very important. There's nothing instant about it. It's a way of life, actually, where you choose to spend your life doing this activity called making art.”

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