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“Old age: when looking back is more fun than forward.”
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“I'm sorry" is not an admission of guilt. It is an expression of caring.”
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“What satisfies may not suffice.”
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“Regret's constructive, guilt destructive.”
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“It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it.”
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“Avoiding work takes more effort.”
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“We don't have a lot of choice about the world we live in. But we do have choices about our world-view. ... We read to spend time with inspiring people, to inspire us as we live in our own world. We read to spend time in a better world, a world that can give us insights to improve our own. We read to live in a different world, to improve our perspective on our own.”
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“Where trust goes, love follows.”
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“Acceptance is not approval.”
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“You can never be great when you can't even reach good.”
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“If you cheat on a test or something else, you may be doing it out of desperation, a love of deception, or as part of some decision. But when you do, you aren't just showing contempt for rules. You're showing contempt for fairness. You're ignoring others' needs, and putting yours ahead of theirs.”
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“I'm right" can be two words too many.”
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“Stupidity is self-fulfilling.”
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“We heard what we wished to, and suffered all that comes of thinking wishfully and listening selectively.”
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“You're only as old as you're frail.”
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“It's not what we are given
It's how we choose to use it”
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It's how we choose to use it”
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“To be free once meant to be kin to the chief.”
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“It's not how you look. It's what I see, when I look into your eyes.”
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“Looks deceive; in acts believe.”
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“I didn't mean to" is better than nothing.
"Better than nothing" is faint praise.
Faint praise is better than nothing.”
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"Better than nothing" is faint praise.
Faint praise is better than nothing.”
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“[T]he driving force behind the [fantasy] genre is a more personal world, without technology that lets people kill each other when they can barely see each other, without bureaucracy and the like that lets people govern each other…when they can barely see each other.”
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“Make sure at some point to stop and look at everyone else's world. At everyone else your life touches. Make sure they're glad your lives touched. Make sure they're glad to share the same world with you. You don't get to take anything with you. Look out for what you leave behind. Make sure you leave smiles, and joy.”
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“Authority is a double-edged sword.”
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“Warmth is so easy to take for granted, until you don't have any.”
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“Think twice, act once.”
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“Who you want to become is far more important than who you once were—your whole future rides on it. ... I do actually see a purpose to guilt. I see a point, a constructive aspect. And I'll put it like this:
Guilt is a reminder that you made a mistake. So feel only as much guilt as is needed to avoid a repeat, and not one iota more.”
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Guilt is a reminder that you made a mistake. So feel only as much guilt as is needed to avoid a repeat, and not one iota more.”
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