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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian mystic and poet 1861-1941

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Geoffrey F. Abert
American author

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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
J. G. Ballard
British author 1930-

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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
French writer 1613-1680

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer and poet 1749-1832

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
James Baldwin
American writer 1924-1987

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher 1803-1882

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet and critic 1772-1834

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Jung Chang
Chinese-born British writer 1952-

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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
Epicurus
Greek Philosopher c.341-270 BC

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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Havelock Ellis
British psychologist 1859-1939

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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German poet and philosopher 1844-1900

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
John Updike
American writer and criticus 1932-

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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer 1900-1944

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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.