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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#adverse conditions #amaze #capacity #ceases #conditions

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#democratic #established #institutions #international #international institutions

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#death #go #man #never #ready

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#barack #barack obama #conservative #going #govern

I don't do what I'm doing to fight terror. ... I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I've learned a few things. I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

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Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive. ↗

— Roger Mahony

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