The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi

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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

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Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

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Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada. — Patrick Cockburn

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It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.

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