"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
— Barack Obama

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
— Robert F. Kennedy

"We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is difficult."
— John F. Kennedy

"These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman."
— Abigail Adams

"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom."
— Noam Chomsky

"Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. "Some of us are starting to wonder."
"I come from civilization," Lucius retorted. "You wouldn't be familiar with the territory. Now pick up the books.
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— Beth Fantaskey (Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side)

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot"
— Nadia Comaneci

""The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.""
— Abigail Adams

"Why did I sign up for this?"
"Because we grow by challenging ourselves"
— Beth Fantaskey (Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side)

"Rejection is a challenge."
— Veronica Purcell

"That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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— Robin Hobb (Ship of Destiny)

"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away."
— Gene Roddenberry

"Only those who dare, truly live."
— Ruth Freedman

"Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost."
— Crystal Woodman Miller

""Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.""
— Kathy Acker

"But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.



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— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there."
— Bill McKibben (The End of Nature)

"To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges."
— Paulo Coelho

"She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die."
— Stewart O'Nan (Songs for the Missing: A Novel)

""Why did I sign up for this?"
"Because we grow by challenging ourselves" "
— Beth Fantaskey

"But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.



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— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.