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 Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.  One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason. - Voltaire Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Speech is silvern, silence is golden. The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk. - Ovid Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace. Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true. I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. Give the historians something to write about. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living. - Voltaire A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them. Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party. True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. 
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