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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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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I promote a healthy lifestyle. ~Kim Kardashian
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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When you have gone so far that you can't manage one more step, then you've gone just half the distance that you're capable of. ~Greenland Proverb
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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If a man does not tell everything to his spiritual father, then his path is crooked and does not lead to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the path of one who tells everything leads directly to the Kingdom of Heaven. ~Silouan the Athonite
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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who loves a thing often talks of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A lock is better than suspicion. ~Irish Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
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A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. ~Latin Proverb
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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