Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if … - Joan Didion

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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Joan Didion

Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

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I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

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The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality. . . are felt.

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I'm not a part of any organized practices, but I believe heavily on love and the universe and what you give is what you get.

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Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

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Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

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