. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face … - Rohinton Mistry

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Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

Rohinton Mistry

. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

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. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

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What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

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World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis. ' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

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Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

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In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

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