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 Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.  Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come. All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. John Milton called his school, Christ College, 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. It is brave to be involved. A dog wags its tail with its heart. Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games. Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on. One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so. Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. - Mary Bly There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also. The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. 
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