It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

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Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

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Scared money can�t win and a worried man can�t love.

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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.

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You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

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So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.

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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever.

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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

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