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 Let me listen to me and not to them.  Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor. A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals. The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme. Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us. In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial. (Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on," and leads us thus to the grave. Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. A stumble may prevent a fall. A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds. The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. 
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