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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

Angela Duckworth

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I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching,
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