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 Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.  It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no. The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm. There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. Somehow, when we no longer feel in control, we become available to deeper aliveness. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. Riots are the voices of the unheard. 
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