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 In politics a week is a very long time.  Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult. My father used to say: Son, if you are not bright, you've got to be methodical, (defusing argument when challenged and proved right) God creates the animals, man creates himself. The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration. When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith. In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty. There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever. Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. A gourmet is just a glutton with brains. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. 
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