"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.”

Source : "Report: Peru rejects rebels' demands to free prisoners". December 20, 1996.
“Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.”
“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
“I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.”
“In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.”
“Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.”
“The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.”

Source : "Red Cross wants tighter restrictions on blood donors" by Pete Hartogs, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2001.

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