“Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”

— Sarah Dessen , book Along for the Ride

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“If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators”

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