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last updated: November 28, 2023

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
-- David Brooks

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Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.
-- Leslie Jamison

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, Granta Books

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Work doesn't have to be great in order to dignify it as work. Work just is. It's quite value-neutral. The issue is about what kinds of power and control you have at work as a human being. That's the commonality. It's not necessarily what the task is.
-- Melissa Gira Grant

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“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”
“Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.”
“And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.”
“Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.”
“Felicity grimaced in agreement. â€œNo, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of oneâ€™s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.”
“If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.”
“Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.”
“I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.”
“It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”
“Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.”