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 Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.  Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value. Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world. I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. - Bible Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. I don't go by the rule book-I lead from the heart, not the head. Ancient custom has the force of law. It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. An improper mind is a perpetual feast. The pen is mightier than the sword. What you get free costs too much. A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent. She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers. Ninety percent of living is just showing up. 
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