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 All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.  Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible. Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. The true university of these days is a collection of books. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp. What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them. - Lao-Tzu Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Bible Friends are a second existence. This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive! Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead. For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. 
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