Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that, women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. ~Louise Otto-Peters
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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Hello and hi. Slowly open your eyes. Get up from your bed. Go to the window. The great sun is waiting to say "Good Morning" to you.
#greetings #cute

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~Welsh Proverb
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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