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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
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Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself.
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To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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