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Julianne’s Quotes

“One way of looking at the history of the human group is that it has been a continuing struggle against the veneration of "crap.”
― Neil Postman

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“The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich

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“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: misfortunes, perseverance

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“Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

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