We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

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Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". ― Clementine Holzinger

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ― Colin Powell

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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. - Voltaire

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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. — Thucydides

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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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I love you more than a California sunset. – Morgan Wallen

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