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History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Brad Meltzer

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we’re their government. And people trust their government.
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Government Hate People
I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.
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Lessons My Son
There’s nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us – or admitting we can’t do it all ourselves.
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Admitting Someone Wanting
Here’s what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends.
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Desks Sitting Writing
The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
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Challenges Hurt Past
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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Lying Ourselves Worst
I understand pain. I’ve lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
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Betrayal Knowing Pain
Overwatch doesn’t just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
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Family Problems Helping Together
A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren’t who we think they are.
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Evil Monsters Thinking
She wasn’t tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
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Adoption Father Tracking
Life is filled with trapdoors.
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Filled Life Trapdoors
Haven’t you ever played Uno?… Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.
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Cards Sometimes Winning
But to me, the most important page in my daughter’s book is the last one – because it’s blank. It says, “Your Hero’s Photo Here,” and, “Your Hero’s Story Here.”
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Book Daughter Mother
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out.
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Character Out Plot Work
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
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Daughter Fighting Impossible Mother
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.
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Believe Fighting Injustice

History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

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History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

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