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"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."

"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."

"I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage."

"Life is more valuable than money."

"The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds."

"Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions."

"It is not very important where you are, but where your thoughts are taking you is important."

"If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with."

"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

"Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world."
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"The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited."

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."

"Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is."
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