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 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - Bible  Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in. "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! the flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. There is no victory without pain. Nature is a volume of which God is the author. Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important. An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again. People who have the most birthdays live the longest. Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift. On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn: any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth. - Lao-Tzu Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! Power in America today is control of the means of communication. There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy. Music is the universal language of mankind. 
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