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“We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.”
― Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
― Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
“Cancer Kid has the Make-A-Wish Foundation because Cancer Kid will eventually die, and that's sad. Schizophrenia Kid will also eventually die, but before he does, he will be overmedicated with a plethora of drugs, he will alienate everyone he's ever really cared about, and he will most likely wind up on the street, living with a cat that will eat him when he dies. That is also sad, but nobody gives him a wish, because he isn't actively dying. It is abundantly clear that we only care about sick people who are dying tragic, time-sensitive deaths.”
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― Words on Bathroom Walls
“English has a lot of synonyms for “fool” or “idiot.” Perhaps you take this to mean that English speakers are mean-spirited; I simply reply that necessity is the mother of invention.”
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― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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― Southern Secrets
― Southern Secrets
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