"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.”
“That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.”

Source : Kent Haruf (2013). “Benediction”, p.198, Pan Macmillan
“The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.”
“Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.”
“Honesty will never break you.”
“Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.”
“Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.”
“He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest â€” he had seen beautiful things and horrible things â€” but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.”

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