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 Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. - Cicero  Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look." They also serve who only stand and wait. When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter," And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said. The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. - Horace A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country. - Bible One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. I was never less alone than when by myself., That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. - Pascal Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present-love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth. 
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