"There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand."

-- Susan Meiselas

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“I feel like people expect me to give them easy answers, but there aren't really easy answers. There are only harder questions. And unless we get to the harder questions part, about what this conversation is really about...of course I want an immigration bill to pass. I want people to have a driver's license and work permits and green cards and passports. But this conversation transcends this bill. We're not going to have a perfect bill. This is politics. I feel like my job is instead of giving people easy answers, my job is to actually to ask people to probe deeper.”
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Source : A Little Book in C Major ch. 2 (1916)
“Never ask for 'a beer.'”
“An unfair process helps no one. But once you've gone through with that process and you think that you know that person has raped someone, they have to go.”
“If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it”

Source : Kenneth E. Hagin (1993). “Mountain Moving Faith”, Kenneth Hagin Ministries
“I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.”
“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”
“You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.”

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