#pair

Action is the antidote to despair. ↗

— Joan Baez

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. ↗

— Ian Anderson

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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. ↗

— John James Audubon

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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. ↗

— Joan Baez

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