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 The shortest answer is doing.  True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. - Bible History, n: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions. Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer. Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration. It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong. If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York. - O. Henry I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it. I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor. It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. 
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