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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 Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
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“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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Lisa See
“There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has him.”
― Lisa See, China Dolls
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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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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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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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