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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

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