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 When you become 100, life changes completely.  Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any. What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar. Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art. Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there. Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected." Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive. Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. 
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