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 If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.  For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death. The intellect is always fooled by the heart. Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world. - Saki Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree. Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. Some folk want their luck buttered. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most. To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands. When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles. Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home. She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray. It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent. 
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