Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think. - Ryan Holiday

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His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Ryan Holiday

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

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No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

Argue, Easy, Pay, Use, Writing

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Forget, Improve, Obstacles, Opportunity, Path

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

Day, Live, Night, Poured, Running, Trying

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

Decided, Feet, Keep, Lay, Persistence, Want

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

Body, Head, Perception, Perspective, Right

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The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

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We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

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It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare is being carried out by some of their American partners. Indeed, such irresponsible behavior basically serves to intensify suspicion and in reality decreases the opportunity for real and meaningful dialogue.

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