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The Virginia Dynasty by Lynne Cheney The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff The Complete Practical Guide to Digital and Classic Photography by John Freeman The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan The Restoration Garden by Sara Blaydes The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
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Lisa See
“There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him.”
― Lisa See, China Dolls
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Lisa See
“When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it.”
― Lisa See, China Dolls
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Michelle Obama
“The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. “What’s better for us?” Barack called to the people gathered in the room. “Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming
tags: choice, hard-work, settle
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Henry Ford
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford
tags: thinking
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J.K. Rowling
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
tags: dumbledore, power-of-words
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