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"You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it."
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"You can endure every hardship with hope."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
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"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
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"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."
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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
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"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies."
Strength
"Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tried to take that choice away."
Freedom
"Some boys feel they are like girls,They are gentle, and like their hair in curls."
Identity
"How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends."
War
"Being captain of such a vessel was not a stressful job, despite the sheer size of the thing. Everything was automated, and this meant that this behemoth could be efficiently handled by a far less seasoned captain. Besides, hiring mature skippers with actual experience would cost real money. And hey, the computers ran everything anyway " and that's how Bran Johannsen enters this story " as a fine young inexperienced graduate of the Merchant Space Academy in Mars City, who only got his Executive Officer's ticket four short years ago."
Technology
"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
Government
"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."
Ethics
"The reason for the peculiar name could be found in the whimsical sense of humor of the early colonists who arrived on Deanna several decades in the past and found very little at all there to laugh at. Obsidian Crows might seem funny at first, unless you just happened to ride over one with your Jeepo five miles out of town and didn't have a spare tire. Although there was a reasonable expectation of hitting one of these diminutive brutes on the roads, this did not happen nearly as often as you might think."
Humor
"Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you."
Identity
"When facts are misrepresented in order to serve an opinion or to promote it aggressively - especially an opinion which demonstrably results in people being victimized, persecuted, and their lives destroyed in many places in the world, it should be a matter of concern to everyone who wants people to be treated equally, fairly and justly."
Justice
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