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When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.: Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.: Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.: Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.: Bahya Ibn Paquda
You have to reach a level of comfort with that risk.: Sally Ride (1951 - ), President, Space.com
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.: Scott Westerfeld, Specials, 2006
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Message to Congress, December 3, 1907
We want God to come and save us. But he won’t. God doesn’t stop levees from failing, he doesn’t stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn’t stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05
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He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732
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But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)

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