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“... no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.”
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“A sharp tool may prove a sharp weapon.”
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“Our skin mediates the most important transactions of our lives. Skin is key to our biology, our sensory experiences, our information gathering, and our relationships with others. Although the many roles it plays are rarely appreciated, it is one of the most remarkable and highly versatile parts of the human body.”
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“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand ... ”
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“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies.”
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“People with passion are incredibly inventive and tenacious individuals. They go way beyond the call of duty and frequently either work on their passion without pay or give more of themselves than their pay warrants. And I do not equate passion with workaholism, in which people say they love their work so much they do it all the time. Workaholics are working to fill a vacuum, or to escape, not to connect with their souls.”
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“At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.”
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“The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.”