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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston ChurchillSuccess is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston ChurchillI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln |
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Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest, and they are rare. A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves. The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. Fire destroys that which feeds it. If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Humility is attentive patience. Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present. The future is made of the same stuff as the present. Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. Pain is the root of knowledge. A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. |
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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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