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Afterwards they would return to America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred place between here and there, and at least online they could ignore the awareness of how inconsequential they ...more
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Voltaire
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Voltaire

Geraldine Brooks
“Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.”
Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

Susan Meissner
“Who defines what is weakness? I’d wondered. Isn’t it only the strong who get to decide that? Isn’t it only the strong who have the power to act on what they decide? How can that be right or fair or good?”
Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Leadership is not a solo act; it’s a team performance. ”
Robert J. Marzano, Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

Malcolm Gladwell
“We have come to confuse information with understanding.”
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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