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Educated

by Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
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― Mark Twain

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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