“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Quoted in Hillary Rodham Clinton's essay on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1998
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Anyone chasing guarantees will find this a bit deflating. I find it oddly comforting, because it means the uncertainty is normal.
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