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Maturity

"It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." From The Matrix

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." Thomas J. Watson

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." Don Herold

“It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals” Esther Warner Dendel, writer and artist (1910-2002)

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” Ethel Barrymore

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