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 To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.  If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion. We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. Man must strive, and in striving, he must err. Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. There is properly no history, only biography. In time of war the first casualty is truth. People fail forward to success. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd? He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. - Bible There are no atheists in the foxholes. All would live long, but none would be old. For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good? 
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