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 No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.  Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction. Any man whose errors take ten years to correct, is quite a man. The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. God dwells where we let God in. Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. All things must change to something new, to something strange. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness. A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man. It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. 
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