Wendelin Van Draanen - People Quotes

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... something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.

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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. It's that way with people, too, he said, only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

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It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

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As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg.
I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.

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