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 Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.  Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue. Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment. Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. I am not now That which I have been. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all. I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. Man proposes, and God disposes. - Ariosto Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant. If I am not for myself, who will be? In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score. In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance. The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces. I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. - Bible Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes. 
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