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 Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes. - Ayn Rand  God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care. The dreadful dead of dark midnight. The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. Fatigue is the best pillow. A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it. What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. There is no failure except in no longer trying. May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart. Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another. It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one. All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. 
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