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 Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.  A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Men must try and try again. Entrepreneurs, in accepting risk, achieve security for all. In embracing change, they ensure social and economic stability. Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey. I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes. I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! What the collective age wants, allows and approves, is the perpetual holiday from the self. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. Adversity introduces a man to himself. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels. I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands. We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. 
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