Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

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Let us think only of the good days that are to come. — Agatha Christie

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You can only work on yourself. Start there. ― Alice O. Howell

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For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down. ― Dave Ramsey

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The only joy in the world is to begin. — Cesare Pavese

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. — Khalil Gibran

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Only the paranoid survive. —Andy Grove

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ― Jonathan Kozol

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ― Desmond Tutu

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My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. - Justin Cartwright

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