IDENTIFIED PATTERNS - LEGISLATORS & ELECTED OFFICIALS

"Adversity does not build character…it reveals it." - John Wooden

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."
Thomas Mann

"There is normally no reason for the State to inject itself into the private realm of the family to further question fit parents' ability to make the best decisions regarding their children" - Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 2000 (99-138):

"[s]imply because the decision of a parent is not agreeable to a child or because it involves risks does not automatically transfer the power to make that decision from the parents to some agency or officer of the state." - Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 2000 (99-138):

"Half a truth is often a great lie." - Ben Franklin

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer