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There was too much at stake to ask questions, to be dumb, to be a curious student, in front of a room of white folk who assumed all black folk were intellectually less than. For the first time in my life, the classroom scared me.
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Avinash K. Dixit
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' In other words, love is a dominant strategy.”
Avinash K. Dixit, Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

Charles Duhigg
“Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.”
Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

John Steinbeck
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Tara Westover
“I carried the books to my room and read through the night. I loved the fiery pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, but there was a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: "It is a subject on which nothing final can be known." The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.

Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward. Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say: whatever you are, you are woman.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Simon Sinek
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

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