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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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. ~William Faulkner
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ~Nnamdi Azikiwe
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Everything I say is true. ~Laura Schlessinger
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Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change. ~Buddhist Proverb
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. ~Hebrew Proverb
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You do not need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~Jewish Proverb
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People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
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