Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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