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 Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.  Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones. Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough, For I am sure of you. The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man. There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts. The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country. Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time. The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you, you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out? In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise. 
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