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Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.


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if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want



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And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.



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Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?



if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.



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He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.



Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.



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No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.



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You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.



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Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.





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And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.



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We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.



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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.




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