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"Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner." »Josh Billings
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"It is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they grow older, and fools more foolish." »Wieland
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"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,We shall remember them." »Laurence Binyen
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"Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow" »The Talmud
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"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better." »John Christian Bovee
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"The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within." »Dave Winer
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." »Gail Sheehy
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." »Winston Churchill
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"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people." »Chinese Proverb
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"The pathway to building a legacy of fearless influence is not spanned by rainbow hue or prettily lined by daisies. On the contrary, it is shaped by our ability to grow less in our eyes in order to grow more in what we do." »Joseph Nyangon
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"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him" »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world." »Eric Hoffer
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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." »Johnny Carson
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"When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century." »Sidney Madwed
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"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thy equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best of the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there." »Francis Quarles
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"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change." »Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow." »Johann von Goethe
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"grow old along with me the best is yet to be." »Robert Browning
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"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"I grow more intense as I age." »Florida Scott-Maxwell
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"Eyes that see do not grow old." »Nicaraguan Proverb
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them." »Josie Bisset
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"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up." »B. A. Billingsly
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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." »Dr.
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"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." »Robert E. Lee
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"We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it." »Sharon Salzberg
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"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing." »Gail Sheehy
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