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I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
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We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.
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If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
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Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
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When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
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I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.
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Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
