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 Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.  Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. For when the wine is in, the wit is out. First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies. In Adam's Fall We sinned all. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously, and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also. Jesters do often prove prophets. Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle-class is its future. - Ayn Rand He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. She's an honor student. She's always saying, "Yes, Your Honor. No, Your Honor." Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. - Matthew 
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