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 I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.  The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. History is past politics; and politics present history. To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. Art, it seems to me, should simplify. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear. Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born. Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain. Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. There was never a saint with red hair. I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future. A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. 
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