We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life … - Douglas Kennedy

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Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, Socrates, Galileo, or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left behind.

Douglas Kennedy

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

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The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

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Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things. , It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

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There is much to be said for solitude.

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We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.

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If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

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