I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight. - Cornel West

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You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.

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When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. -C. S. Lewis

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Almost nothing in life is constant. Conditions and circumstances are perpetually in flux like the winds and the tide, which is why my mind is never fixed. ― David Goggins

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ― Epictetus

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If you assign your happiness to external circumstances, you will never find the one thing we all deserve...joy in life. ― Andrew Pacholyk

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ― Hugh Downs

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