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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
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When tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today than the weight is more than a man can bear.
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
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When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.
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When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
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When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.
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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''
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