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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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