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“Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.”
... just refuse it, eh?
Great-grandma had sailed the Vivacia for thirty-five years, past her seventieth birthday. One hot summer day she had simply sat down on the foredeck, said, “That’ll do, boys,” and died.
this diva
He was not throwing a temper tantrum, he was trying to make you see his side of things. One doesn’t spank a child for courteously voicing an opinion. Nor does one strike a man for it.”
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I have heard folk rail against his cruelty and loudly ask ‘why, why?’ But the next day the same folk will take their saws and go out and cut limbs from their fruit trees, and dig up young trees and move them far from where they sprouted. ‘They will grow better and yield more,’ the orchard workers say. They do not stand by the trees and explain that it is for their own good.”
There is coincidence, and there is fate. I am more than willing to argue with coincidence. But the few times I have argued with fate, I have lost. Badly.”
Uhhhhh
“You sound like a fortune teller,”
“It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.”
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“Somehow,” she said coldly, “you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong. I, however, have not.”
“I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.”
My curiosity has always been greater than my wisdom.
