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| 9732597 | The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair. | unfairness-of-life | Libba Bray | |
| 5606251 | But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with. The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out. That was the military. | success careerism company-culture ladder-of-success business-leaders corporate-culture unfairness-of-life military promotion human-nature | Orson Scott Card | |
| 783cfd6 | Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not. Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. | pain world beauty dreams hope and-the-mountains-echoed plastic-surgeon khaled-hosseini unfair superficial unfairness-of-life sorrows cruel | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 4bcbcec | It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change | unfairness-of-life | Julie Orringer |