We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

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Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it. – Joel Osteen

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.― Bertrand Russell

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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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All things are difficult before they are easy. — Thomas Fuller

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life. - Rita Moreno

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It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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