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 Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.  Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them. Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences. We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living. - Voltaire On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliot, 'the Apostle of the Indians,' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because,' replied the venerable man, 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and he has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.' Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us. Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear. One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity. Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die. The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future. The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep. The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies. 
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