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“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.”
― Paul Wellstone

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness