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An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.
Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.
I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Law is a bottomless pit.


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