You're the only one you have control over.

Once I accepted who she was, I could take her criticism less personally and try to truly help her. She continued to work with me for five years.

In one case, I was working with a woman who told me initially that she was recommending me to all her friends. Within weeks, however, she began to complain that I didn't know how to help her and that her past therapist understood her better than I ever could.

Through further consultation and discussion, there is an improved understanding of flood control land needs and engineering requirements. This parcel will be key. Our determination is that selling the entire 60 acres will better achieve the goals of the regional flood management project.

Alas, you're right, I don't have control over how quickly the books get translated into other languages.

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement." The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine.

The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of circumstance.