"Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems."
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"Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter."
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"It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company."
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"When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'"
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"If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images."
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