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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Joseph Heller

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Dead Difference War Win
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

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