"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
-Herman Melville
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"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.“
-Herman Melville
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
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"Truth is in things, and not in words."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
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"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."
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"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
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"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
-Robert Wyatt
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"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."
-Marvin Gaye
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"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."
-Lucy Hale
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"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."
-John Clayton
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"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."
-Fuzzy Zoeller
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