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 The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.  I believe in the gods. Or rather, I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded. The end of man is action. Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason. Great and good are seldom the same man. Fear is stronger than arms. Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen. What costs nothing is worth nothing. In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. - Panin Epitaph, n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! The grandeur that was Rome. True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking. The public is very fickle, as I was saying to my cabdriver, Gerald Ford. Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. - Plato 
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