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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ↗

— Ben Okri

#authentic #capacity #create #endure #greater

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beauty #fighting #get #i #i am

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings. ↗

— Ben Okri

#definition #description #fallen #fiction #human

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#added #also #becoming #chairman #cleveland

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#administrative #during #fact #give #hard

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#giver #good #harm #humility #more

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#communities #concerned #deliberately #efforts #fell

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#better #better way #bureaucratic #expand #find

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#care #divinity #everything #five #get