"With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense."

-- Jennifer Tour Chayes

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“Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.”
“There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.”

Source : Pope John Paul II, Achille Silvestrini, Jerome M. Vereb (1999). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.272, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Truth comes out in wine.”
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
“I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.”
“There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 21, 2013
“If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends”

Source : Gordon Brown's speech to foreign finance and environment ministers on climate change, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2005.
“People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do”

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