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Being the first born gives you great patience.

Abraham Verghese

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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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