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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

“I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” - Charles Kettering

Where there is hope, there is difficulty.

Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.

America will never complete the work of reconstruction—will never even get close to being a more perfect union—until we are honest about her past and the politics of rejection.

The point is this: we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that something. To value X, we must reject non-X.

The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.