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		There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zhang Zhidong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Top-rank global corporations are collapsing. That could happen sometime, and somehow even to Samsung. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edwidge Danticat 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alfred North Whitehead 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
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		Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Green 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cleve Jones