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  1. Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
  2. In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
  3. Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
  4. This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
  5. It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
  6. We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
  7. The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
  8. People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
  9. It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
  10. I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

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