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“You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.”

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John Lennon, born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and died on December 8, 1980. He was a founding member of the iconic rock band The Beatles, known for his unique musical talent and his advocacy for peace and anti-war ideas. more

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.”

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Author:Gail Sheehy

“Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.”

Men Given Bravery Intimacy Awards Promotion

Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and they would swear there was no driver.”

People Age Known Car Drivers Swear Phantoms Cadillacs

Author:George Burns

“I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.”

Stills Left Each Day Being Thankful

Author:George Burns

“I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.”

Song Hours Minutes Sitting Standing Invention Chairs Sitting Down Great Inventions Sitting In A Chair

Author:George Burns

“My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.”

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Book:Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

“The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.”

People Knows Want Years Stills Six Years Ago Retirement Performers Retiring Retired Saddest

Author:George Burns

“This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.”

Years Decided Exciting

Author:George Burns

“I'd rather be over the hill than under it.”

Hills Over The Hill

Author:George Burns

“Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

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