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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."

"I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it."

"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."

"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."

"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."

"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."

"On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life."

"But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness."

"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."

"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."

"And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all."

"But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel."

"Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant."

"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"

"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."
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