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Confessions
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when you tell a young person something with all the authority of a teacher, you actually risk amplifying the trouble. I began to feel that there was nothing more self-indulgent and foolish than forcing my opinions on my students.
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“It's a lot easier to have faith in something you can't see, can't touch, can't explain, and can't change, rather than to have faith in something you actually can.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“I will state that ambition without ability is the greatest evil in the world. It ever fathers monstrous crimes against mankind.”
― The Life of Herod the Great
― The Life of Herod the Great
“As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“...the purpose of leadership is not simply to win. It is to serve.”
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“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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