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The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

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Book cover for The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)

The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal

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“Você pode verificar os logs do computador da minha trajetória, mas isso vai mudar a maneira como viajamos.”

English (sass): "You can check the computer logs of my trajectory, but it will change the way we travel."

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: activism, service

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