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 I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.  Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. The greatest American superstition is belief in facts. Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again. Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Deep faith eliminates fear. The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean. Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. - Bible When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes. Whatever you do, you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Make us happy and you make us good. We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. 
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