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"I'm not sure I'm following the book well. I feel like I need to keep a summary of each chapter on hand so that I can look for the answers to my questions. I do enjoy it tho. The story is fascinating and keeps the reader curious about what will happen next." — Feb 02, 2012 08:04AM
"I'm not sure I'm following the book well. I feel like I need to keep a summary of each chapter on hand so that I can look for the answers to my questions. I do enjoy it tho. The story is fascinating and keeps the reader curious about what will happen next." — Feb 02, 2012 08:04AM
“whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us aren’t. He wears suits to his job while we wear overalls, if we’re lucky enough to have a job at all. His wife tells us that we shouldn’t be feeding our children certain foods, and we hate her for it—not because we think she’s wrong but because we know she’s right.”
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“We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won’t, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.”
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“A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“If parents simply read for pleasure at home on their own, their children were more likely to enjoy reading, too. That pattern held fast across very different countries and different levels of family income. Kids could see what parents valued, and it mattered more than what parents said.”
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
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