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 Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.  Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person, the consistently reasonable man. You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter. There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face. - Boethius What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough. My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go. We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't. It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 
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