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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.

Michelle Obama

there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Effort Limitation Reward
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Character Goodness Success Yourself
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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Children Deep Grow Up Myself Philosophy Thinking
Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Different Thinking Yourself
I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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Believe Home Job Life Man Myself
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World

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