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Better to suffer than to die. Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is. Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit; every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy. An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. None so deaf as those that will not hear. Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something. Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. We cannot all be masters. At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody. Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
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