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Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan

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The Romans didn’t think much of these savages so they built a vast stone wall – Hadrian’s – in 122 AD to keep these brutes away from their designer togas and Gucci sunglasses.

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“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

tags: change, hardwork, inspirational

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“The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It’s when mercy is least expected that it’s most potent—strong enough to break the cycle of victimization and victimhood, retribution and suffering. It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

tags: grace, healing, justice, mercy

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“Learn from your past and be better because of your past,” she would say, “but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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“There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

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