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 My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.  Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated. Sharing what you have is more important than what you have. Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change! Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well. Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking. Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places. No man hates God without first hating himself. Hell is indefinite. Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning. Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along. Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life. There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. 
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