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Virtue Begins When We Dedicate Ourselves Actively To The Job Of Gratitude.

The Trouble Is Not That We Are Never Happy-it Is That Happiness Is So Episodical.

So Much Of The Trouble Is Because I Am A Woman. To Me It Seems A Very Terrible Thing To Be A Woman. There Is One Crown Which Perhaps Is Worth It All--a Great Love, A Quiet Home, And Children. We All Know That Is All That Is Worthwhile, And Yet We Must Peg Away, Showing Off Our Wares On The Market If We Have Money, Or Manufacturing Careers For Ourselves If We Haven't.

The Happiest Excitement In Life Is To Be Convinced That One Is Fighting For All One Is Worth On Behalf Of Some Clearly Seen And Deeply Felt Good, And Against Some Greatly Scorned Evil.

... With Every Asiatic Country Where We Operate In Cooperation With The Existing Culture, The Need For Intelligent Understanding Of That Country And Its Ways Of Life Will Be Crucial. These Nations Will Very Likely Not Respond To Appeals With Which We Are Familiar, And Not Value Rewards Which Seem To Us Irresistible. The Danger--and It Would Be Fatal To World Peace--is That In Our Ignorance Of Their Cultural Values We Shall Meet In Head-on Collision And Incontinently Fall Back On The Old Pattern Of Imposing Our Own Values By Force.