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 Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. - Proverbs More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. - Bill W. The thicker one gets with some people, the thinner they become. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. Our first and last love is - self-love. It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true. We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man. We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it. Words will build no walls. - Plutarch Ask in faith. - Bible It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. 
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