"So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey."

-- John Milton

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“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”
“Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?”
“Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.”

Source : Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd
“The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.”
“I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.”
“I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.
“Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.”

Source : Gary Player (2001). “The Golfer's Guide to the Meaning of Life: Lessons I've Learned from My Life on the Links”, Rodale Books
“There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.”

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