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People aren’t perfect. It’s not about loving them when it’s easy and convenient; it’s about loving them even more when it’s hard.
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Kim Holden (The Other Side)
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It's not about living them when it's easy and convenient; it's about loving them even more when it's hard.
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Kim Holden (The Other Side)
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With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.
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Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows, #8))
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Unless the technology makes buyers’ lives dramatically simpler, more convenient, more productive, less risky, or more fun and fashionable, it will not attract the masses no matter how many awards it wins.
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W. Chan Kim (Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant)
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Vietnam was a universal solvent—the explanation for every evil we saw and the justification for every excess we committed. Trashing the windows of merchants on the main streets of America seemed warranted by the notion that these petty-bourgeois shopkeepers were cogs in the system of capitalist exploitation that was obliterating Vietnam. Fantasizing the death of local cops seemed warranted by the role they played as an occupying army in America’s black ghettos, those mini-Vietnams we yearned to see explode in domestic wars of liberation. Vietnam caused us to acquire a new appreciation for foreign tyrants like Kim Il Sung of North Korea.1 Vietnam also caused us to support the domestic extortionism and violence of groups like the Black Panthers, and to dismiss derisively Martin Luther King, Jr. as an “Uncle Tom.” (The left has conveniently forgotten this fact now that it finds it expedient to invoke King’s name
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David Horowitz (The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz (My Life and Times 1))
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What they were glossing over with this too-convenient metaphor was that life itself was just a long series of trigger events.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (The Ministry for the Future)