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1 " There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness. "
― Noah Hawley , The Good Father
2 " I'm sorry," I said, "did you just say elections are about hope? "
3 " Staring up at me, hearing my tired voice, he reached out his tiny hand. He knew me, even though he had never seen me before. And I knew him. He was the love I'd been trying to express my whole life. "
4 " He worried that he was destined to be a hobbyist, a dreamer incapable of finishing anything. The fact that the college seemed to encourage this kind of “experimentation” made him doubt its motives as an institution of higher learning. "
5 " I was an old man, the father of the vilified. Would this be my life from here on out? Was I to become the argumentative man who can’t control the volume of his own voice? The conspiracy nut with boxes of data who spouts dates and facts, as if coincidence alone can prove the existence of God? "
6 " At home the children complained because I kept the thermostat at seventy-two degrees. "
7 " The only thing that can change who we are is life. "
8 " He wrote, ‘Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. "
9 " He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real. "
10 " I made the choice, but it was also fate. "
11 " Without hope, there's no growth. Without growth, there is no life. "
12 " Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do. "