Mr. SHADID: You know, it's striking the degree, I think, of paralysis that you find in parts of southern Lebanon.

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And again, whatever you can do to trick yourself out of all the worry and paralysis that that doubt causes, do it.

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And one of the things that I've felt very strongly about during the course of this year is that hard stuff requires not paralysis, but it requires going ahead and making the best of the situation that you're in at this point, and then continually trying to improve and make progress from there.

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