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 Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.  Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. Acceptance makes any event put on a new face. What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. Hate is not a good counselor. In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God. The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Better be too credulous than too skeptical People make their own luck. If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards. If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. Believe not your own brother - believe, instead, your own blind eye. 
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