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“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. ”
― The Count of Monte Cristo, V1
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. ”
― The Count of Monte Cristo, V1
“Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”
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“The question, then, is not “Is story telling science?” but “Can science learn to tell good stories?” (p. 50)”
― Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education & the Social Sciences
― Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education & the Social Sciences
“tea was served every afternoon between three and four in the Common Room on the main floor of Fuld Hall. “Tea is where we explain to each other,” Oppenheimer once said, “what we don’t understand.”
― American Prometheus
― American Prometheus
“But many of the injustices that young women face today are the same ones we fought against forty years ago. The discrimination may be subtler, but sexist attitudes still exist.”
― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
― The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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