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 The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.  Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo. Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. - Bible If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car. We have met the enemy and they are ours. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. People fail forward to success. What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? - Bible You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will. There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it. I was just thinking, when I was a young girl, I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady, I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know. The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world! Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. An excuse is a lie guarded. He's so old his social security number is two digits. I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do. 
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