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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I got hooked on the first 3-4 seasons of The West Wing years ago. I'll occasionally dust them off when I want to watch something I only sorta pay attention to (because if I'm really watching it, I get annoyed by how preachy it is).
In either event, I had it on a couple weeks ago and heard a great line - something of a throwaway - that I had never picked up on before:
"People have phenomenal capacity..."
It's just so...simple. It's fundamental is a lot of ways. And man oh man do we often lose sight of it.
Maybe it takes a triggering event every decade or so to keep it more at the forefront of our consciousness, but man we can take a LOT and keep punching.
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We realize we have no choice. There's no other option. Can't quit.
We'll get thru it.
When you turn lose the ingenuity and intelligence of our collective world, they'll figure this ****er out. Be it a vaccine, or treatment or something. It may knock us down. But like Rocky, we won't quit.