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I have inherited her name, but I don’t want to inherit her place by the window.
“And when a person experiences advantages because of their privilege, unconsciously or consciously, they may not readily or willingly critique the system they have benefited from.”
― Shatter the System: Equity Leadership and Social Justice Advocacy in Education
― Shatter the System: Equity Leadership and Social Justice Advocacy in Education
“Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody got to write you -- but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. And you could do all the writing. Yeah. Wouldn't that be sweet?”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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