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 I was chosen to speak today based on my senility.  Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. The temple of silence and reconciliation. - Macaulay It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. Outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in. Killing time is the chief end of our society. Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease. Where our bread is concerned, it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned, it is a spiritual matter. From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can. - Terence Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. - Homer Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us. - Pindar I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous. 
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