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At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?
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Arundhati Roy (The Cost of Living)
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I've been diagnosed as being bi-polar but so have Florence Nightingale and King David...which kinda leaves me in pretty dam good company...if I must say so.
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Timothy Pina
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. Itโ€™s always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, the Amazon and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees-must have been no more than trickles and flickering streams before they grew into mighty rivers. Are people like that? I wondered. Am I like that? Always me, like the river itself, always flowing but always different, like the water flowing in the river, sometimes walking steadily along andante, sometimes surging over rapids furioso, sometimes meandering wit hardly any visible movement tranquilo, lento, ppp pianissimo, sometimes gurgling giacoso with pleasure, sometimes sparkling brillante in the sun, sometimes lacrimoso, sometimes appassionato, sometimes misterioso, sometimes pesante, sometimes legato, sometimes staccato, sometimes sospirando, sometimes vivace, and always, I hope, amoroso. Do I change like a river, widening and deepening, eddying back on myself sometimes, bursting my banks sometimes when thereโ€™s too much water, too much life in me, and sometimes dried up from lack of rain? Will the I that is me grow and widen and deepen? Or will I stagnate and become an arid riverbed? Will I allow people to dam me up and confine me to wall so that I flow only where they want? Will I allow them to turn me into a canal to use for they own purposes? Or will I make sure I flow freely, coursing my way through the land and ploughing a valley of my own?
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Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)
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Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
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Eoin Colfer
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Speak to me, fair maid! Speak and do not go! What sorrows have your eyes inlaid With such black woe? My dam is buried deep Dark are my father's halls And carrion fowl and wolves now keep Their ruined walls From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh
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Alison Croggon (The Naming (The Books of Pellinor, #1))
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That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
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Megan Smith (Trying Not to Love You (Love, #1))
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Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you? Who knows but God if he will put you before kings and leaders to speak the truth, redirecting the future of nations? Who knows when that small crack in the dam of our enemyโ€™s plans will give way and Godโ€™s glory will truly cover the earth as the sea? Do not become distracted or discouraged by the death around you. Death must always give way when the life of Christ enters the picture.
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Amy Layne Litzelman (This Beloved Road: A Journey of Revelation and Worship)
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You know better than anyone that nothing lasts. Nothing good. Nothing bad. Everything lives. Everything dies. Sometimes cities just fall into the sea. It's not a tragedy, that's just the way it is. People look around them and see the world and say this is how the world is supposed to be. Then they fight to keep it that way. They believe that this is what was intended - whether by design or cosmic accident - and that everything exists in a tenuous balance that must be preserved. But the balance is bullshit. The only thing constant in this world is the speed at which things change. Rain falls, waters rise, shorelines erode. What is one day magnificent seaside property in ancient Greece is the next resting thirty feet below the surface. Islands rise from the sea and continents crack and part ways forever. What was once a verdant forest teeming with life is now resting one thousand feet beneath a sheet of ice in Antarctica; what was once a glorious church now rests at the bottom of a dammed-up lake in Kansas. The job of nature is to march on and keep things going; ours is to look around, appreciate it, and wonder what's next?
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C. Robert Cargill (Dreams and Shadows (Dreams & Shadows, #1))
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Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.
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Heather Blanton (A Lady in Defiance (Romance in the Rockies, #1))
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Beavers give a dam
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Victor J. Garcia
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If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first...Why do we find it so dam hard to practice the same moral law here in our nation?โ€ โ€• Timothy Pina, Hearts for Haiti
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Timothy Pina (Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration)
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Sobek existed only in the collective imagination of his devotees. Praying to Sobek helped cement the Egyptian social system, thereby enabling people to build dams and canals that prevented floods and droughts. [...] It is often said that God helps those who help themselves. This is a roundabout way of saying that God doesn't exist, but if our belief in Him inspires us to do something ourselves โ€“ it helps.
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Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow)
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Jolly Marchers by Maisie Aletha Smikle Dam Dam Didley Doe Dee Daw Didley Doe Dee Dam Doe Fa So La Ti Doe Animals in a row Prancing as they go Jiggling and Wiggling Tails and head bobbing Mice on drums Elephants on flute Zebras blare the trumpets Squirrels blow trombones Skunks get funky on clarinets Bees on violins Hogs on guitar Parrots and crickets sing Aha Aha Vultures cheer Mosquitoes twirl Wings clapping and flapping Heads go up and down bobbing Marching and skanking Rocking and bobbing Wiggling and singing Dee Daw Didley Doe This is not a circus There are no clowns There is not a palace There are no crowns On and on they go Monkeys in tow Tigers in bow Onlookers stare and glow Donkey takes the podium As conductor of the band Waving his marching wand The band comes to a stand Mule takes a stool And sits in the cool They have reached the bend Where the march ends The ants were nesting So they missed the fest Some got on tambourines And insist they must join in The ants jiggle and wiggle Some play the fiddle Dancing and singing Didley Dam Didley Doe
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Maisie Aletha Smikle
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Remember this: we all swim in the river of hope and risk, unless someone breaks the dam, and chaos reigns.โ€ Excerpt From: Joison, Peter. โ€œEllring.โ€ iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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Peter Joison (Ellring (Chronicles of the Vordene, #1))
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Almost since the beginning of recorded history, humans have seen themselves as separate from the natural world. We divide the planet into two categories: things influenced by human action and things that are untouched. The distinction is false. On a global scale we can see that the constant progress of industry has had a dramatic effect on the climate. The humanizing influence of our carbon footprint affects everything. The year that Iโ€™m writing this, 2016, is set to be the hottest ever recorded, expected to top the 10 record-breaking years before it. The scale of the problem indicates that humanity and the environment are intrinsically linked. But does that mean weโ€™re making the world more human? Or does it mean that humanity has been part of nature all along? The tiny muscles around your arteries have one unambiguous answer to that question. Despite everything that we try to do to separate ourselves from the world around us, humans are still indisputably part of nature. As byproducts of evolution, the skyscrapers, plastics, and automobiles we manufacture are no less โ€œnaturalโ€ than a termite mound, a honeycomb, or a beaver dam. Yes, the actions that humans make may be significantly more destructive or ambitious or awe-inspiring or futile, but they are all part of a greater system of causes and effects. We are still animals. Just very smart ones.
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Scott Carney (What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength)
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. . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writerโ€™s dream, by learning to market your writing skills, your wonderful books. All it takes is believing in yourself for an instant, believing your power as a storyteller full, completely, absolutely without question. AND, letting go just long enough to create, to break the dam thatโ€™s holding you back. Just a little rupture so your energy starts leaking out, and you start learning to quit dwelling on any the thoughts related to your mental roadblocks. . . .
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Terry Kennedy (The Zen of Marketing Kindle Ebooks: The Publishing Guide To Selling Ebooks On Amazon (The Zen of Indie Books #1))
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Nature is harsh. It doesnโ€™t give crowns to those who create the best but to the ones who can destroy the most. Beavers can build dams as much as they want, but bears will always rule the forest.
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Nikola Misovic (Untold Stories of the Little Prince)
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Those wielding absolute power seldom have the wisdom to relieve floods; all they know is how to dam them.
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Alice Poon (The Earthly Blaze (Sword Maiden from the Moon, #2))
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And to say that the citizens of those rival domains did not always see eye to eye was a bit of an understatement, because each represented the antithesis of the otherโ€™s deepest values. To the engineers and the technicians who belonged to the world of the dam, Glen was no dead monolith but, rather, a living and breathing thing, a creature that pulsed with energy and dynamism. Perhaps even more important, the dam was also a triumphant capstone of human ingenuity, the culmination of a civil-engineering lineage that had seen its first florescence in the irrigation canals of ancient Mesopotamia and China, then shot like a bold arrow through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution to reach its zenith here in the sun-scorched wastelands of the American Southwest. Glen embodied the glittering inspiration and the tenacious drive of the American centuryโ€”a spirit that in other contexts had been responsible for harnessing the atom and putting men on the moon. As impressive as those other accomplishments may have been, nothing excelled the nobility of transforming one of the harshest deserts on earth into a vibrant garden. In the minds of its engineers and its managers, Glen affirmed everything that was right about America. To Kenton Grua and the river folk who inhabited the world of the canyon, however, the dam was an offense against nature. Thanks to Glen and a host of similar Reclamation projects along the Colorado, one of the greatest rivers in the West, had been reduced to little more than a giant plumbing system, a network of pipes and faucets and catchment tubs whose chief purpose lay in the dubious goal of bringing golf courses to Phoenix, swimming pools to Tucson, and air-conditioned shopping malls to Vegas. A magnificent waterway had been sacrificed on the altar of a technology that enabled people to prosper without limits, without balance, without any connection to the environment in which they livedโ€”and in the process, fostered the delusion that the desert had been conquered. But in the eyes of the river folk, even that wasnโ€™t the real cost. To
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Kevin Fedarko (The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon)
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Think of the flow of inspiration to create like a river. The river always flows until man puts something there to block it, like a dam. Then when the dam is there, we ask why there are so many fish dying, animals disappearing, and forests dwindling, when all we need to do was return the river back to its natural state and everything will be working perfectly fine, the way nature intended it to. This is the same for our minds and our goals. We always dream, have big goals, and know what to do at all times when we're tapped into our inner wisdom and inner intelligence, free from thinking. If we simply do not think about our thoughts, any sort of thoughts about dreams, goals, and desires that naturally arise are all from the divine and that is how you "create" goals out of inspiration versus desperation.
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Joseph Nguyen (Don't Believe Everything You Think)
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City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban life. As a result, cities may look awe-inspiring but aren't particularly resilient against disasters like storm floods and drought. And the more a city suffers from the onslaughts of nature, the more contentious its political situation becomes. Then it's even harder to repair shattered dams and homes. This vicious cycle has haunted cities for as long as they've existed. Sometimes the cycle ends with urban revitalization, but often it ends in death.
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Annalee Newitz (Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age)
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But this gargantuan dam in Glen Canyon, authorized in April 1956, and begun just five months later with appropriate presidential fanfare and a pig-tailed string of blasting sticks, wasnโ€™t the first audacious impoundment of the Colorado. Twenty-five years before, in 1931, work had gotten under way in Black Canyon, 400 miles downstream, on an enormous dam that would ultimately be named for Herbert Hooverโ€”the largest dam in the world at that time, and the first time engineers had been able to test their convictions that a high concave wedge of concrete could successfully stop a river. Often called Boulder Dam during the desperate Depression years of its construction, Hoover Dam claimed the lives of 110 men before a swarm of workers topped it out, but it also captured the wonder and pride of the nation at a time when there were few palpable symbols of Americaโ€™s continuing might. It was a public work on the grandest scale imaginable, and its sweeping walls of concrete crowned by fluted, Deco-inspired intake towers attested to the fact that we as a nation knew we would be great again, signaled the certainty that our natural resources remained our secure and fundamental wealth.
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Russell Martin (A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West)
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You must control and direct your emotions not abolish them. Besides, abolition would be antimissile task. Emotions are like a river. Their power can be dammed up and released under control and direction, but is cannot be held forever in check. Sooner or later the dam will burst, unleashing catastrophic destruction. ์นดํ†กโ˜Žppt33โ˜Ž ใ€“ ๋ผ์ธโ˜Žpxp32โ˜Ž ํ™ˆํ”ผ๋Š” ์นœ์ถ”๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” Your negative emotions can also be controlled and directed. PMA and self-discipline can remove their harmful effects and make them serve constructive purposes. Sometimes fear and anger will inspire intense action. But you must always submit your negative emotions--and you positive ones--to the examination of your reason before releasing them. Emotion without reason is a dreadful enemy. ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ตœ์Œ์ œ๊ตฌ์ž…,์ตœ์Œ์ œ๊ตฌ์ž…,์ตœ์Œ์ œ๊ตฌ๋งค,์ตœ์Œ์ œํŒ๋งค,์ตœ์Œ์ œ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,์ตœ์Œ์ œํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ,์ตœ์Œ์ œ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์ตœ์Œ์ œ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์ตœ์Œ์ œ๋ณต์šฉ๋ฒ•,์ตœ์Œ์ œ์ง€์†์‹œ๊ฐ„ What faculty provides the crucial balance between emotions and reason? It is your willpower, or ego, a subject which will be explored in more detail below. Self-discipline will teach you to throw your willpower behind either reason or emotion and amplify the intensity of their expression. ์šฐ์„  ํด๋ฆญํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํด๋ฆญํ•œ๋งŒํผ ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์‹ค๋ง๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ •ํ’ˆ์ง„ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์•ฝํšจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š”๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒ”ํŒ”์ •,๊ตฌ๊ตฌ์ •,๋„ค๋…ธ๋งˆ์ •,ํ”„๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์ง€,๋น„๋งฅ์Šค,๋น„๊ทธ์•Œ์—‘์Šค,์— ๋น…์Šค,๋น„๋‹‰์Šค,์„ผํŠธ๋ฆฝ ๋“ฑ ๋งŽ์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์›ํ•˜์‹ ๋ถ„๋“ค ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์—ฐ๋ฝ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ตฌ์š”,์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด ๋‹จ๊ณจ๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ์…”๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค love everyone who walks into our life.It must be fate to get acquainted in a huge crowd of people... I feel, the love that Osho talks about, maybe is a kind of pure love beyond the mundane world, which is full of divinity and caritas, and overflows with Buddhist allegorical words and gestures, but, it seems that I cannot see through its true meaning forever...
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You must control and direct your emotions not abolish them. Besides, abolition would be antimissile task. Emotions are like a river. Their power can be dammed up and released under control and direction, but is cannot be held forever in check. Sooner or later the dam will burst, unleashing catastrophic destruction. ์นดํ†ก โ˜Ž ppt33 โ˜Ž ใ€“ ๋ผ์ธ โ˜Ž pxp32 โ˜Ž ํ™ˆํ”ผ๋Š” ์นœ์ถ”๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ๋ง์—†์ด ํ•œ๋ฒˆ๋งŒ ์ฐพ์•„์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋’ค๋กœ๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ๋‹จ๊ณจ๋  ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ž์‹  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ €ํฌ์ชฝ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ œํ’ˆ์—๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ์ž์‹ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํŒ”ํŒ”์ •,๊ตฌ๊ตฌ์ •,๋„ค๋…ธ๋งˆ์ •,ํ”„๋ฆด๋ฆฌ์ง€,๋น„๋งฅ์Šค,๋น„๊ทธ์•Œ์—‘์Šค,์— ๋น…์Šค,๋น„๋‹‰์Šค,์„ผํŠธ๋ฆฝ ๋“ฑ ๋งŽ์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋งŒ ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š”๊ณณ์ด๋ผ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here? ์— ๋น…์Šค๊ตฌ์ž…,์— ๋น…์Šค๊ตฌ๋งค,์— ๋น…์ŠคํŒ๋งค,์— ๋น…์Šค๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,์— ๋น…์Šคํ›„๊ธฐ,์— ๋น…์ŠคํŒŒ๋Š”๊ณณ,์— ๋น…์ŠคํŒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,์— ๋น…์Šค๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์— ๋น…์Šค๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,์— ๋น…์Šค๋ณต์šฉ๋ฒ•,์— ๋น…์Šค๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ,์— ๋น…์Šค์•ฝํšจ,์— ๋น…์Šคํšจ๊ณผ The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me. Your negative emotions can also be controlled and directed. PMA and self-discipline can remove their harmful effects and make them serve constructive purposes. Sometimes fear and anger will inspire intense action. But you must always submit your negative emotions--and you positive ones--to the examination of your reason before releasing them. Emotion without reason is a dreadful enemy. What faculty provides the crucial balance between emotions and reason? It is your willpower, or ego, a subject which will be explored in more detail below. Self-discipline will teach you to throw your willpower behind either reason or emotion and amplify the intensity of their expression. Both your heart and your mind need a master, and they can find the master in your ego. However, your ego will fill their role only if you use self-discipline. In the absence of self-discipline, your mind and heart will fight their battles as they please. In this situation the person within whose mind the fight is carried out often gets badly hurt.
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Gil likes to yell at me when I'm working out, but it's nothing like my father's yelling. Gil yells love. If I'm trying to set a new personal best, if I'm preparing to lift more than I've ever lifted, he stands in the background and yells, Come on, Andre! Let's go! Big Thunder! His yelling makes my heart club against my ribs. Then, for an added dash of inspiration, he'll sometimes tell me to step aside, and he'll lift his personal best- 550 lbs. It's an awesome sight to see a man put up that much iron above his chest, and it always make me think that anything is possible. How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gill, in one of our quiet moments, are so dam tiring. He laughs. I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired. p155
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Andre Agassi (Open)
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Dreaming Woman Instead of dams We build bridges arching Across turbulent waters Instead of walls We craft doors With ancient wisdom Instead of weapons We create future generations By words of life Instead of oppression We live We breathe We adapt to life as it comes Recreating it around us Again and again Hoping that one day It will be allowed to stay.
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Maria Lehtman (The Dreaming Doors: Through the Soul Gateways)