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 Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.  It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves. There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts. What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession. Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction. My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be. The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. O, for an engine to keep back all clocks! A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death, but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass. Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more. Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy. Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss. A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman. I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money. 
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