If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett

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Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

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You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end. ― Kanye West

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you. - Joshua Harris

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I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

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No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

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