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 Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.  Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future. Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself! - Meg Ryan Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health. We talk on principle, but we act on interest. Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. - Bible The laborer is worthy of his hire. - Bible Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. The dust and silence of the upper shelf. Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me. Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. 
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