I wish I was living in a universe in which parents felt bad and took responsibility for the trauma that took place when a young child was allowed to spend the night with a virtual stranger.
I recently came across what is known as the Stockdale Paradox. He was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and noticed it was optimists who had the worst time. Those who were realistic about situation fared better.
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I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations. T.H. Huxley
Last edited by shakespeare47; Oct 02, 2016 at 07:45 AM.
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