"When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate."

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Source : "Turning Tragedy Into Compassionate Action" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2009.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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“We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.”
“You see nature and then you try to emulate it.”

Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
“One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic â€“ something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.”
“Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!”
“All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.”
“This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.”
“When you're a ball hawk, you should have a mohawk.”
“Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.”

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