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 Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.  A nation is a body of people who have done great things together. If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile. Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera, that is, provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak. We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another. It takes all sorts of people to make a world. There was an old man who said, "How Shall I flee from this horrible cow? I will sit on this stile, and continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of that cow." Whatever advice you give, be short. - Horace We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Our visions begin with our desires. Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die. Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination. If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. 
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