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 Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.  The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them. - Matthew The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. The art of publicity is a black art. People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him. The mob has many heads but no brains. Excellence costs a great deal. Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing. - Bob Rae The beginning is half of every action. None think the great unhappy, but the great. A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise." Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. America and its demons, Europe and its ghosts. - Le Monde 
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