In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
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When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
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If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.
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... wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.
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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
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... disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
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We have 10 guys contributing to our success. We aren't just playing 10 guys; 10 guys are contributing. We rotate guys in spots. No.1, we have fresh people when we do that. No. 2, they are all just really working hard and deserve a chance to play.
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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
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There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
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When you come to the end of everything you know, and the next step is into the depths of darkness of the great unknown, you must believe one of two things: Either you will step out onto firm ground or you will be taught to fly.
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Violence is my last option.
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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
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Clearly they've had a history of ongoing problems.
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