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It takes courage to be yourself when everyone expects you to be someone else.
“That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“Building a life on solid accomplishment is more difficult than being an antiwar veteran and confessing one's guilt in public.”
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“I love you as much as I'm willing to love anybody.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“...the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the real class divide is between those who can borrow money and those who can’t. Because no matter how much money anyone earns, they still lie awake at the end of the month worrying about money. Everyone looks at what their neighbors have and wonders, ‘How can they afford that?’ because everyone is living beyond their means. So not even really rich people ever feel really rich, because in the end the only thing you can buy is a more expensive version of something you’ve already got. With borrowed money.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Put in more sobering terms, only one-third of twenty-first-century American children now read with sufficient understanding and speed at the exact age when their future learning depends on it. The fourth grade represents a Maginot Line between learning to read and learning to use reading to think and learn. More disturbing altogether, close to half”
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
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