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 If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then ... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.  Ten lands are sooner known than one man. The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it. Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little? The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. Sadness is a state of sin. Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death. Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood. One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something. The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way. - Virgil It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured. Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. Friendship is love without his wings! 
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