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“If we can’t face our losses, we can’t be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.”
― Krista Tippett

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“While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The Big Stick, 1905–1909: 1905–1907 (Volume 5)

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“In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time – literally – substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: choice, freedom, internet, society

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“For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.”
― Jimmy Carter, U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses

tags: healing

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“When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come to do, what will become of him at death, and incapable of all knowledge, I become terrified, like a man who should be carried in his sleep to a dreadful desert island, and should awake without knowing where he is, and without means of escape. And thereupon I wonder how people in a condition so wretched do not fall into despair.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées by Blaise Pascal

tags: human-predicament, mystery-of-life, the-quest

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