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 Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.  I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them. We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much is not enough if expended foolishly. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. - Goethe He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility. 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. I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth. Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith. The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. To oppose something is to maintain it. Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise. We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. 
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