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 It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.  Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile. There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne. I can't believe that out of a hundred thousand sperm, you were the quickest. If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. - Juvenal 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. Fear of death is worse than dying. Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are. Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible; that is, one is male and the other female. After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener. Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than by defeat. 
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