“I did learn one valuable lesson, though.
I learned that you can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.”

— Robert J. Sawyer , book Calculating God

Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 7 (p. 77)

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“I did learn one valuable lesson, though.
I learned that you can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.”