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 A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.  If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you. Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Pioneers did not produce original works of art, because they were creating original human environments; they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them. I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. - Plato Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. - Homer In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End. Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. All I had to do was keep turning left. Freedom means choosing your burden. Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. 
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