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I've been knocking on the door for the past five years and finally doing it in this one moment means everything has come full circle,


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BILLY WALLER What was my reaction? Excitement. I've been waiting five years for this moment.
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RICHARD CARLSON I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens...
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SARAH DESSEN I've gone to school and classes since I have been on the fire department for the past five years and...
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HENRY NOWAK We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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ANNE SINCLAIR We've come full circle.
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ERIK FRIEDLY It's now come full circle.
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I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
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NELSON ALGREN We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed ...
NELSON MANDELA It always seems impossible until its done.
NELSON MANDELA As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had ...
NELSON MANDELA The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye c...
NELSON MANDELA I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to s...
NELSON MANDELA I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I...
NELSON MANDELA How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so...
NELSON MANDELA Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
BOB NELSON If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Af...
NELSON MANDELA Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
NELSON DEMILLE My son has died of AIDS.
NELSON MANDELA Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
NELSON MANDELA Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do...
JUDD NELSON Legg Mason's structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They o...
NELSON PELTZ The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a deni...
NELSON ALGREN Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. The...
ANTONYA NELSON