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 Faith is the continuation of reason.  One starts an action simply because one must do something. What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. - Pericles The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. In war there is no substitute for victory. In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage. Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. It's a bad plan that can't be changed. Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Men do not fail, they stop trying. Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all. None think the great unhappy, but the great. Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. 
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