We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the good fight. Or Captain Marvel. Or me. Or... There are a lot of us. And we don't all wear masks these days. Iron Man went public. So did Captain America. Others. Probably because it's harder to keep secrets in an internet surveillance age. But I think some of it, too, is that the ethical paradox can wear you down. No one on the white-hat side has ever hidden his or her identity with less than noble intent: to make the fight about something bigger than us. To represent a greater justice, where the focus can be on right and wrong... and not on whether the bad guys will exact reprisal on those close to us. And sometimes you have to lie... because you can justify a lie if lives are riding on it. Even as you fight for, as the saying goes, truth and justice... even if you're a lawyer who has sworn to live by the truth... you willingly bear false witness.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d... CRAIG GROESCHEL You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that the... SUSAN GLASPELL We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ... RANDY NEUGEBAUER Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will no... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. 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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Life is not a sport. Life is not math. There is no final end goal and there is no right answer. Just... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, c... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to set... SUZANNE COLLINS We're just young enough where, against good teams like this, if we miss a free throw and they make a... GARY KELLOUGH The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dus... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain a... YUVRAJ SINGH He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a... C. JOYBELL C. Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had... MEISTER ECKHART Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their p... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. ... MELISSA BANK Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are ca... DONALD GLOVER Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know y... ROBERT MACCOLL ADAMS We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all yo... MEREDITH GREY To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM First of all, nobody is ever going to know about the fact you might have smoked weed with the guys. ... DAVE BLISS Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against e... CATHERINE MARSHALL Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in... JESSICA SHIRVINGTON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine w... CARTER WOODSON if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI What if — is more complicated than that? 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