"Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have."
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"Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope."
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"I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow."
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"Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge"
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"There's no such thing as no chance."
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"Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind."
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"The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting."
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"The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us."
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"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."
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"We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when."
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"I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges."
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"Hope and change are hard-fought things."
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"It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion."
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"Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family."
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"I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face."
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"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change."
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"We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age."
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"The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress."
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"Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple."
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"Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action."
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