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 It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.  Work is the curse of the drinking classes. There is no data on the future. Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. - Plutarch God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing. Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds. India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator. "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot." Flirtation, attention without intention. He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream. I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbour; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two. Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. 
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