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Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. KennedyMy words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William ShakespeareOne man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw |
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We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work. How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less. I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror. A multitude of small delights constitute happiness. He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window. The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep. Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Nothing can be done except little by little. What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. |
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I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. |
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