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Today, I don’t believe in destiny. But I do believe in history…There’s nothing more powerful than history.

Brad Meltzer

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
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Harm Pain World
Our fathers never leave us. Ever.
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Father Leave Our
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 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
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
You tell them – you tell them there’s a cost…..Every decision we make in life, there’s always a cost.
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Cost Decision Make
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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Lying Ourselves Worst
Life is filled with trapdoors.
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Filled Life Trapdoors
Today, I don’t believe in destiny. But I do believe in history…There’s nothing more powerful than history.
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Believe Destiny Powerful
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
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
Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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Book Changing World
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
Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.
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Beauty Happens Stories
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
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Moments Parent Perfect Worst
Greatness isn’t something you should always be chasing. There’s greatness within all of us, and I think that’s what we forget.
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Forget Greatness Thinking
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
The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
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Challenges Hurt Past
In this life, y’ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They’re challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there’re divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.
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Battle Challenges Soul
No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
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Love Matter Parenting Parents
Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
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Creative Men Strong
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
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Every Fork Life Road Sometimes
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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Individual Long People
Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.
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Eras Eye President
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
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
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

Today, I don’t believe in destiny. But I do believe in history…There’s nothing more powerful than history.

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