"It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in, there's a whole bunch of suffering. And what they need to understand as 10-year-olds, so that when they're 15 and slightly less protected, and when they're 20 and they're moving into a truly semi-independent state, they need to have experienced that memory of persevering and having gotten through hardship."

Source : "No More Neverland: A Senator's Guide To Raising American Adults". "All Things Considered" with Steve Inskeep, nprillinois.org. May 16, 2017.

Benjamin E. Sasse

#Memories Quotes #Moving Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world.”
“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.”
“My family and school life are important to me.”
“Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go these days. Kind of like the Pied Piper." Behind me, Finn huffed out his displeasure. "Minion? I am most certainly not a mere minion. Head minion, perhaps. At the very least.”
“The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.”

Source : "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.
“Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.”

Source : Nancy Duarte (2013). “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons
“The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster.”
“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

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