Found, Changed & Rearranged

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

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There can be no reconciliation without repentance. There can be no repentance without confession. There can be no confession without truth.

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A typical symptom of someone going through something traumatic is to want to put it all behind you.

Becca Heller, IRAP founder (speaking of why refugees may choose not to keep in touch.) How accurate is this to other traumas?

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A mature religion is integral in nature - that means that it is flexible enough to integrate all new knowledge within its frame of reference and keep pace with all the new discoveries of the human mind. It indeed takes the cross into the spacecraft. Going to school means starting on the road to science, and if religion does not follow the same road with an open and critical eye, the grown adult who flies the ocean in super jets might be religiously still content with a tricycle. Essential for mature religion is the constant willingness to shift gears, to integrate new insights, and to revise our positions.

Henri Nouwen, Intimacy(book)

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The really tough thing is figuring out which questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.

Elon Musk

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It seemed like one should try and make the world a better place because the inverse makes no sense.

Elon Musk

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

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The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

Alice

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Everyone is broken by life, but afterward, many are strong in the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

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The challenge was one of actually living and working in our countries in freedom and justice for each human being.

Eleanor Roosevelt (on applying the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.) She chaired the committee that wrote it and upon passing with no dissenting votes, received the only standing ovation ever, before or since, for a single delegate.

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The United Nations was created to safeguard the rights of individual human beings, not the prerogatives of governments.

Eleanor Roosevelt (addressing soviet Andrea Vishinsky regarding displaced persons from Eastern Europe not wishing to return to territories under Russian rule.)

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I suppose when one is forced to realize an unwelcome change is coming, one must blame it on someone or something.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Almost any communication -- however negative -- is preferable to silence. However unpleasant the information or feedback may be, it allows others to make informed decisions in their own time. Silence, by contrast, leaves them stuck, unsure when or whether to move, unclear whether action is needed or not. What I learned from [my job in the television industry] is that when you tell people the truth, in a timely fashion, you show them respect. And that's how you earn it too.

MARGARET HEFFERNAN

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How long does it take to assemble an airplane used in WW2?

In 1943(?) the average Ford car had some 15,000 parts. The B-24 Liberator long-range bomber had 1,550,000 parts. One came off the line at Ford’s Willow Run plant every 63 minutes! (Ken Burns The Roosevelts: An Intimate History S1:E6 The Common Cause)

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What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history, we find that we have already been ready to receive the unfortunate from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousand fold by what they have brought us.

Eleanor Roosevelt (The Roosevelts, An Intimate History Season 1, Episode 5 “The Rising Road”) quoted in relation to 11/9/1938 “Kristallnacht” a country-wide looting and destruction of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues  by Germany military

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European Refuges

In 1939, 85% of American protestants and 84% of catholics opposed offering sanctuary to European refuges. So did 25% of American Jews. - A gallop poll taken early 1939 (The Roosevelts, An intimate History Season 1, Episode 5 “The Rising Road”)