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Quote by Jeff Greenfield

“There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.”

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Jeff Greenfield

Jeff Greenfield is an American journalist born on June 10, 1943. He has had a rich career in the news industry, covering a wide range of topics including politics and culture. more

“It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.”

Feels May Feelings Suffering Emotion Endure Painful Proof Sufficient Contentment Attributes Armor Resignation Disagreeable Morbid

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.”

Light Goodness Benefits Casts Disappointment Graves Contradiction Resignation Tranquil Unchangeable

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.”