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Change and Transformation
J.M. Barrie
Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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E.M. Forster
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.
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D.H. Lawrence
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son’s age.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
One cannot help using his early friends as the seaman uses the log, to mark his progress.
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Edmond de Goncourt
Savagely is necessary ever}' four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization.
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Stephen Hawking
Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.
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Christine Lavant
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. J. R. R.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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