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Carnie Wilson Singer
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"Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness."

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Benjamin Avila Artist, filmmaker
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"The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature."

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David Simon Television Producer
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"I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human."

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Dee Wallace Actress
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"If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor."

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Diana DeGette Politician
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"The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down."

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Cathy Freeman Athlete
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"I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it."

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Al Gore Politician
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"Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years."

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Al Gore Politician
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"Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?"

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Al Gore Politician
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"Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here."

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