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 You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.  We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way. Laws are never as effective as habits. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained. Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted, this is a process that requires trust and builds trust. Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. Chance favours only those who know how to court her. We talk on principle, but we act on interest. 
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