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Jan Schakowsky

"There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."

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"There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."

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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."

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"It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate!"

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"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you."

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"You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate."

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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

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"Ambalal Muljibhai' (Dada's relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and 'we' (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."

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"One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent, that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha."

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Amber Hurdle

"The rule is that when one's mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person's mind in that subject."

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"What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell."

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"Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best."
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"I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster."
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"Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America."
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