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 Not my will, but thine, be done. - Bible  The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go. No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. He will give the devil his due. Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble. When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more. All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure. Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. - Macaulay Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you! We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living. - Voltaire There is no such thing as bravery, only degrees of fear. 
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