Fiona

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“We have to believe that our mistakes do not diminish us. They don't diminish what you've stood for. Hold fast to that, even when you are held to task for what you have done here. Hold fast, and know that you are not alone.”
― Darren Chen, The Good Guys

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“Imaginative leaps belong in planning, not delivery. When stakes and stress are low, we are freer to wonder, try and experiment. Planning is creativity's natural habitat.”
― Dan Gardner Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, How Big Things Get Done By Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner & Factfulness Ten Reasons We'Re Wrong About The World By Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund 2 Books Collection Set

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“The practical side of me says it's okay if we gain something by allowing our dignity to be thrashed, but the reality is that by not defending ourselves and avoiding conflict, we lose our independence--not to our impairment or disability, but to handicapping attitudes. Should we allow ourselves to be bullied, giving in to the point where we have nowhere to stand, then this will be expected of us, always,.. Equality is a necessity, and not a fancy concept we should be striving for. An equal place for every person on this earth should be protected.”
― Cassandra Chiu, A Place For Us

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“During the course of writing this book I have come to realise the enormous effort needed to put a person first before their disability, how cumbersome the sentence can be, and I applaud those who try. In my opinion, until we can put the person first in day-to-day realities like education and employment, it really makes little difference how disability is labelled.”
― Cassandra Chiu, A Place For Us

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“We carve our dreams into objects, large or small. The emotions we hold but fail to honour, we try to express through the things we create, trusting that they will outlive us when we are gone, trusting that they will carry something of us through the layers of time, like water seeping through rocks... Each historical artefact, therefore, is a silent plea from ancestors to descendants, "Do not judge us too harshly." We make art to leave a mark for the future, a slight kink in the river of stories, which flows too fast and too wildly for any of us to comprehend.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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