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 Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.  Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second. I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober. The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one. The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut. A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there. Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. The game isn't over until it's over. The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review, a collection of songs and sketches, preferably with a satirical bias. The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance. Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe. Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man. Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. - Phaedrus 
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