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 No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.  Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death. There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. Many a true word is spoken in jest. I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it. There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. 
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