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Quotes
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Sara Genn
"You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths."
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Sara Genn
#Strength Quotes
#Responsible Quotes
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“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
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“The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.”
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“Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.”
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“In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..”
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“On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
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“Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.”
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“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
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“I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.”