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 The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.  A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything. If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. God alone can finish. Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism. If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations. You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident. The number of agency people required to shoot a commercial on location is in direct proportion to the mean temperature of the location. The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distin-quished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation. - Zohar It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another. Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo. There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. We have as much time as we need. 
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