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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

They are able because they think they are able.

Is it men or women who work the most in slaughterhouses? Is it men or women who are most involved in domestic battering? Is it men or women who commit the most rapes? Is it men or women who vote for the most executions? Is it men or women who promote war, vote for war, kill in war? Is it men or women who as 'talk show hosts' allow no talk? Is it men or women who are more often pedophiles? Is it men or women who torture lab animals more?

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.