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 Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.  They sicken of the calm that know the storm. If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me. There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much. Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine. There is no devil but fear. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it. When I first came to this country, I didn't have a nickel in my pocket - now I have a nickel in my pocket. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. God respects me when I work, but loves me when I sing. Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. - Seneca He gives twice who gives quickly. 
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