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“You may be appalled by your world, but you must be gratefully appalled.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your life has come at the expense of a nearly infinite number of other potential lives that will now never get to be lived because you get to live.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Categorizing yourself by either your victimization or your privilege fails to give any clarity to life’s fundamental question: What are you going to do with it?”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Wallowing in victimhood only demeans and paralyzes you. Don’t do it. Redeem it instead. Transcend it instead.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Justice is the delusion of the self-entitled. To desire it is to desire a world that is not this world.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Whatever your world is, you are alive, and an incomprehensible number of things had to happen just the way they did for that to be the case.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Neither lion nor gazelle question whether it is just for the lion to catch and eat the gazelle or just for the gazelle to get away and let the lion starve.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Justice is a fickle mistress, alluring but elusive, ever delivering less than she promises.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Spend your life chasing justice and only one thing is certain: You will have spent your life.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“There are many injustices that will simply never be made right, and to expect otherwise is to set yourself up to be consumed by frustration.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“To expect a hospitable world is hubris. Instead, expect the opposite. Expect a world that may destroy you at its whim at any moment.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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