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 Expenditure rises to meet income.  If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. God is a rich and bountiful Father, and He does not forget His children, nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive. Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. 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. Always take an emergency leisurely. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind, under the influence of the will and grace, to yield firm assent to revealed truths, because of the authority of God. The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner. Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all. Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all, try something. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex. Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian. Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. - Ram Dass Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. 
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