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"This poignant, yet wonderful book has helped me to understand Annie Sullivan Macy & her courageous life in new ways!" — Apr 14, 2016 09:34AM
"This poignant, yet wonderful book has helped me to understand Annie Sullivan Macy & her courageous life in new ways!" — Apr 14, 2016 09:34AM


“I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them. —George Yeoman Pocock”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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