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 Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.  The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her. Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it. Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want. Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. We must master our good fortune, or it will master us. To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun? Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you never know where it may lead. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Better silent than stupid. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. - Matthew Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do. I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through. Hunger is the best sauce. - Proverbs I'll have to, as you say, take a stand, do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out. I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself. My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. 
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