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 Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.  Statistics are no substitute for judgement. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. I never gossip, but I can give you the names of certain people who do. I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways. Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. Far from gay cities, and the way of men. - Homer The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog. What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. We are all born mad. Some remain so. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows? He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses, though he be not drunk. I have lost friends, some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street. By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. 
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