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 To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.  The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, 'O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.' A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. Gentlemen of die Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!' What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit? God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument. Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go, they go! Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. 
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