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 Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.  Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khat-mandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And die yellow god forever gazes down. My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. - Napoleon Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six. Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll. We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. 
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