Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien

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We need to be honest with the American people about the problems and the challenges ahead and the solutions that are needed to fix them. And I would argue it's the president who has been missing in action on this front. He knows we have a debt crisis coming. All independent experts show us this. And so he hasn't even given us a budget yet. I mean, the law required that he was supposed to submit a budget the first Monday in February. — Paul Ryan

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One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.-Donald Trump

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To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

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