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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

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If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

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History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

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Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

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We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Comedy is acting out optimism.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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