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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
Arthur Golden
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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.
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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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