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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how prep

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. – Alvin Adams

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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. – Alvin Adams

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Failure
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Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. – Alvin Adams

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Attitude
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – Thomas Huxley

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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

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I dont know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I dont cry. I say maybe its meant to be. – Ofra Haza

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. – Matthew Arnold

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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