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 The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.  We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered. A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent. When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors. A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?" I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. Strong people don't need strong leaders. Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think. It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time. You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid. Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing. A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great. Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection. Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. 
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