"Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above."

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Source : John Angell James (1841). “The widow directed to the widow's God”, p.117

John Angell James

#Grace Quotes #World Quotes #Affliction Quotes

“I am no longer afraid to say anything.”
“Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock â€˜n roll.”
“Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.”
“She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.”
“Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.”
“Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. 1998.
“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.”

Source : "Are robots hurting job growth?". "March of the Machines" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. January 13, 2013.
“We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.”

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