"Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas."
"The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy."
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Source: James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.
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