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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and..."

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

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I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. Brad Dourif
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. Tupac Shakur
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And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line. Seamus Heaney
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The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice. Orson Scott Card