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 The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.  Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration. True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it. Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years. Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tsze There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. In all human affairs there are efforts, there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them. Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Boys will be boys. There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.' 
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