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• I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

  Yann Martel

  Beautiful, Brotherhood, Religion

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.67, Vintage Canada

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• If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
  Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

  Ariel Sharon

  Inspirational, Business, Real

  "Report: Sharon willing to make 'painful concessions'", edition.cnn.com. April 13, 2003.

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• Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
  Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Patience, Memorable

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Adversity, Enthusiasm For Life

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

  Prince Philip

  Change, Doe, Tradition

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• In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Inspiration, Loss

  Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.

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• Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Communication, Dancing

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• My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Running, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Freedom

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• Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

  Ed Helms

  Graduation, Running, Opportunity

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• Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspiring, Graduation, Giving

  "36 Inspiring Graduation Speeches From Your Fave Celebs" by Kristin Koch, www.seventeen.com. June 11, 2018.

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Important

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Jesus, Love You

  "Vigil With the Young People". Address in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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• The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.

  Barry Finnerty

  Music, Jazz, Spontaneity

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  Ira Gershwin

  Change, Music, Encouragement

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• It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

  Kofi Annan

  Time, Peace, War

  "Secretary-General Stresses Need for Culture of Peace". Kofi Annan's message for the occasion of the International Day of Peace (September 14), www.un.org. September 10, 1999.

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• ...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

  Coretta Scott King

  Peace, Determination, Healing

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• What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, People, Psychology

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

  William Russell

  Work, Responsibility, Men

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• Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

  Jennifer Estep

  Jealous, Band, Engagement

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

  Tony Blair

  Change, Country, Sacrifice

  Tony Blair's address to the the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported in "Blair signals shift over climate change" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2005.

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• A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Disappointment, Sorrow, Facts

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• Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

  Plutarch

  Courage, Enemy, Valor

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.183

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