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The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

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
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
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
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
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
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
The past may not hurt you, but it won’t challenge you, either.
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Challenges Hurt Past
Our fathers never leave us. Ever.
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Father Leave Our
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
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
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Ancient Animal Fighting
Don’t go to eighth grade…don’t talk about something old…don’t bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.
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Grade Memories Something Today
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
As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you’re in, when you want something – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it. 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 Daughter Fighting
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
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
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
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
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Alraedy Book Fate Scar Written
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
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
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
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
I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
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Biking Moving Something Switch Two Yoga
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
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Lying Ourselves Worst
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
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
Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.
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Book Changing World
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

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.

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