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All work is the avoidance of harder work.

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James RichardsonVectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are ...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they woul...

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws o...

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Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of...

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There is no avoidance in delay.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we bec...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best...

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No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our pol...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were goin...

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I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there wer...

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I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate n...

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