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		It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alan Gratz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vijender Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walt Mossberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Becky G 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Joy Fowler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Hanson 
			 
			
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		The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Phil Jackson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felicity Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Hartman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Macaulay Culkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was easy to see the worst of humanity, when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me that there was still good in the world. Even if I rarely saw it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alan Gratz