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 Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.  Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee. A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery. Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate. We don't see many fat men walking on stilts. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. Always bring money along with your complaints. - Plautus The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Truth is a child of Time - Don Ford Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble. Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace. 
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