As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
