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The government is becoming the family of last resort.
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things; Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings."
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope.
Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.


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