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Behind every great man there is a surprised woman. The dreadful dead of dark midnight. Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. The covetous man is always poor. Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. Luck is what a capricious man believes in. To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. Remember, no matter how many candles you blow out this year, there's one gal who will always think of you as young, strong and handsome - your mother. In God we trust; all others must pay cash. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. You cannot serve God and Mammon. The basic fact of today is the tremendous. You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't. Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all. Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
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