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 A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.  Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. The heart is wiser than the intellect. I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences. Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again, who knows? Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth. The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done." Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature? - Bible Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man. They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it. For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. The body never lies. Why should a man fear, since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can, unthinking. Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest. Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. 
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