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 Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.  When you pray for anyone, you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me." The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want"? A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground. In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. When I saw something that needed doing, I did it. Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine. I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. Alas!, how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love! Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow. Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Wonder ... music heard in the heart, is voiceless. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. 
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