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She was the most colorful woman in the world—and I mean that in all definitions of the word “colorful.”
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.”
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than allowing it to master you.”
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“If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.”
― The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
― The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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