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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?" A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. What we want is never simple. Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences. There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares. The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes. You always admire what you really don't understand. To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas. Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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