How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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