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 Injustice never rules forever. - Seneca  Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience. Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot. And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God. We must endure what fortune sends. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline; in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances. Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Some remedies are worse than the disease. - Syrus Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief." My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and that's not just my opinion - it's hers. 
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