"We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be."

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Source : Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2008). “The Eyes of the Want”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

“We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.”
“If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.”
“I think ***** is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.”
“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.”
“Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.”

Source : Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.12, Knopf
“After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.”
“We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.”
“The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.”

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