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When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?
Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.
Perfection is out of the question.
War would end if the dead could return.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that.
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.


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