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 A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother. - Homer  I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment. No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. - Bible The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas. When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering. He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune. We have met the enemy and they are ours. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots. 
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