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 Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.  Making night hideous. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun, but I can twirl one. It looks good. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics. I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them. Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. 'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation. The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything. The best way out of a difficulty is through it. Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large. We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway. The purpose of life is life. The banalities of a great man pass for wit. We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself. 
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