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In youth, we run into difficulties. In old age, difficulties run into us.

— Beverly Sills Misattributed

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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

The Quotable Woman (1978)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996)

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. I'm not about to change now.

Beverly : An Autobiography (1988)

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.

TIME Vol. 120 (1982)

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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