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 An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.  O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be. It is the theory which decided what can be observed. If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without. Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society. What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you. Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. Plain as a nose in a man's face. It was founded upon a rock. - Matthew Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Because it is less structured than work, leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work. I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. - Romans Give God time. If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims. 
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