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 It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch  Danger and delight grow on one stalk . My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers. Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success. You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong. A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything. If this is dying, I don't think much of it. You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. - Bible Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. When I am weak, then am I strong. - Bible Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. For my family to go on living the way they are living now, I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally. The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. 
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