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 Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.  Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. - Bible The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Borne the burden and heat of the day. - Bible Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. A true friend is the best possession. It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on. Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about. The nail that sticks out is hammered down. He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him. Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Nouvelle cuisine, roughly translated, means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry." Great ideas originate in the muscles. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. 
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