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 Growth is not concerned with itself.  Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you." There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. Suit your manner to the man. - Terence In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. (The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments. Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death. I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us. To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance. That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. False in one thing, false in everything Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. 
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