Survival mode is not where we are meant to remain; it is a temporary refuge for the weary soul while it searches for a path forward. Such is life—we stumble, we heal, we endure, and we press on until, one quiet day, we return to the silence from which we came.
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For over 340 years people of color did not have the same voting rights as the white majority (if any at all). In 1965 the Voting Rights Act remedied the situation. After a meager 61 years that same white majority has decided they are now the ones being discriminated against. You can't make this stuff up.
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Money makes us have stuff; money also destroys stuff.
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The ultimate mystery all of us must penetrate is the human heart and its fathomless capacity to love friend and enemy alike with the same undisturbed compassion.
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Courage isn't always about showing up at grand gestures, but the act of persisting even when the heart is weak and worn. Such courage is noble!
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Purists posture, moderates manage. It is a sad country that does not have enough boring people.
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My love is stubborn, his patience needs a cigar
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History is the study of past events, the disasters of the outrageous present and the nuclear apprehension of the next available future. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
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At home you normally stumble onto a long lost document of yours when you begin to search for a recently lost one. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
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"Avoid words that blow up the significance of disrespect, and be wary of confirmation bias that reinforces negativity. See the bigger picture and handle difficulties philosophically within yourself. While speaking of grievances may offer temporary relief, it can keep you stuck in victimhood. Choose to focus on inner growth rather than amplifying negativity outwardly."
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Plans for going to Mars and plans for going to wars show that human beings of the 21st century keep advancing speedily — both in alarming technology and alarming stupidity. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
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No matter how fast artificial intelligence spreads, global stupidity will always be ahead of it. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
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Every student walks a path we cannot see; our job is to guide gently, not impose.
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"You are not a backup plan. You’re the whole map someone forgot to study."
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Will the merciful Lord strengthen me when dreariness abounds and desperation revokes hopelessness? Only when my weakness becomes strength: I can rely on myself, not on others who may mock me, thinking it's foolishness. Success in everything cannot be achieved. Avoid stubbornness and settle for a simple life, never recurring to want more than need.
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"Love isn’t some neat little garden all pruned and predictable. It’s wild maybe crazy, messy, untamed, stubborn. It takes root in the strangest of places. It weathers storms and keeps on stretching, even when the world says it shouldn’t. This—this is that kind of love. My kind of love," - Daniel Henry Rodgers
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The cleverness or sturdiness of children, doesn't mean they're capable of parental responsibilities.
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The significant difference between you and me is that I can prove you're stupid.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
– John Adams
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God will ultimately win -- it is His creation, and we are His created. The Devil, stupid? He is just being the devil. He is stupid, immoral, murderous...and seductive. To personally do battle with Him, to entertain his mind and being, in a sense, is to lose. Lean on God, go to God. When surrounded by Christ Light, permeated with Christ Love, only listening to Christ presence -- we are Victorious. To face the devil from a position of combative ego, Alone, is to royally lose.
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Indeed, the stars are yet studied as mysteries, no nearer -- in fact, many having traveled further away, out of sight. Enough of them always remaining for each of us to make new constellations of his own.
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"Let go of bad habits.
Drop the negativity, stubbornness and self-pity,
Replace with humbleness."
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Stop and smell the roses, but be careful you may get stung, for those bees are not fussy about taste, so you could be the unlucky one.
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"Sift through the insignificant stuff, lighten the load."
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When we give to others, we are also giving back to ourselves -- when we love others, love multiplies within us -- blessing and grace are God's way. Let us together, reaffirm our commitment to each other, and all of nature. Let us pray, Heaven's way. Holy Holy. What we plant, how we plant is our posture and reap.
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"How all people are tiny,"
The footbridge said.
Nobody was seen,
neither my father,
nor my mom,
not even the longest night of the year,
whose length is the tallest---Yalda night.
"All aged as a dot,"
plane's window said.
My eyes ache
to watch all these tiny black points,
I said,
and stupid ophthalmologists
still prescribe me glass
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The existence of an opponent in the territory, is a disturbance to their rivals. Never let your enemy come close to your territory.
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Come through Christ for he's the way to God, na through person them take dey know person, no stubborn if dem show you God picture, you know am?
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You are what you study, and achieve, but the effort never dies and NO means the next opportunity.
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When we stumble ... we may briefly be
humbled, only to be vulnerable to a rising
dignity to affirm.
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