To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).
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By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
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