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 Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.  I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-I've worked hard for them! Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old. Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil. Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom. When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!) In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. Misfortunes come to all men. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! The AmenT of Nature is always a flower. 
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