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 Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.  Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices. We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have. Leisure time is when your wife can't find you By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. - Cicero Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Make yourself necessary to somebody. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. War is the science of destruction. Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. We work to become, not to acquire. Miami bumper sticker: My horn is broken-so watch for my finger. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light. 
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