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 To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.  Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done. In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality. I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances. Soul appears when we make room for it. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. 
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