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  • #2
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #3
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    J.D. Vance
    “What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
    J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

  • #9
    J.D. Vance
    “One way our upper class can promote upward mobility, then, is not only by pushing wise public policies but by opening their hearts and minds to the newcomers who don’t quite belong. Though”
    J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

  • #10
    J.D. Vance
    “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.” I”
    J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

  • #11
    J.D. Vance
    “In my immature brain, I didn’t understand the difference between intelligence and knowledge. So I assumed I was an idiot. I”
    J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

  • #12
    J.D. Vance
    “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder than a moment. I’ve seen far too many people awash in a genuine desire to change only to lose their mettle when they realized just how difficult change actually is.”
    J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis



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