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 Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.  You will never do anything in this world without courage. The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love. When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. - Bible Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on. It runs in the blood like wooden legs. Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument. Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice. A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea. As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother. The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. 
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