One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
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Veronica Roth
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to...
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Rick Yancey
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
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Rick Riordan
There are only two most powerful situations- being so small that you have nothing to lose and being so big that you don't care what you lose!
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Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill...
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Steve Maraboli
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During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's, he had been a child prodigy who, by the age of four, could read and recite Latin. He went on to...
Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon
An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?
During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. I will climb the bank where the willow never dies.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
