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 Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.  If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote. I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? - Bible Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut. Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain. There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul. Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest. You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them. We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless. We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked. A man is a lion in his own cause. The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes. The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. 
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