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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

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The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

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To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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