Andrea Ruby

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“Immediate gratification takes too long.”
― Carrie Fisher

tags: humor

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“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

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“What is the point, what is the reason, to lock people away for years, when it seems to mean so very little, even to the jailers who hold the key? How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it’s dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”
― Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

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“as the old pharaoh was laid to rest, allowing her brother to claim his place fully upon the Isis Throne.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

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“From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of “pure race”—and therefore one occasionally found a decent fellow among the camp guards.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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