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 I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it. - Mae West  I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him? The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct. Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies. No man is more cheated than the selfish man. My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. - Amy Tan I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. 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. Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself." Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it. Every hero becomes a bore at last. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears. Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. 
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