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"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."
"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
"See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented."
"In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing."
"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day."
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."
"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."
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