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 The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.  Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. - Bible An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end. They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. Conscience reigns but it does not govern. Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication. The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. A good title is the title of a successful book. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time, but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. Time is a very shadow that passeth away. There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else. Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run. 
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