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I Am Somewhat Of A Meliorist. That Is To Say, I Act As An Optimist Because I Find I Cannot Act At All, As A Pessimist. One Often Feels Helpless In The Face Of The Confusion Of These Times, Such A Mass Of Apparently Uncontrollable Events And Experiences To Live Through, Attempt To Understand, And If At All Possible, Give Order To; But One Must Not Withdraw From The Task If He Has Some Small Things To Offer - He Does So At The Risk Of Diminishing His Humanity.

Overnight Business Could Go Down Enough To Hurt; Yet As A Rule It Slowly Recovered-sometimes It Seemed To Take Forever-went Up, Not High Enough To Be Really Up, Only Not Down.

Reader, I Am Myself The Subject Of My Book; You Would Be Unreasonable To Spend Your Leisure On So Frivolous And So Vain A Matter.

We Have In My Country (russia) A Quotation: "it Is Impossible To Make Out Of Apology A Fur Coat.

How Can We Be Strangers If We Both Believe In God?