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 There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.  As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative? After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky. If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. 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. Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting. 
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