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 Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.  The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. He that endureth to the end shall be saved. - Bible A friend in power is a friend lost. Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined, and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublim-est; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God. A tale never loses in the telling. We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. "Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. Reason is an emotion for the sexless. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man. When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little. 
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