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Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

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as Sam’s nursery school teacher, Judy Shore, used to say, “You get what you get, and you don’t get upset.”

Swampscott teacher, Judy, taught me that.

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“The French agronomist René Dumont identified the problem: “The man who opposes Castro’s ideas is quickly rejected, and as a result when Castro sets forth a mistaken proposition nobody dares oppose him if he wants to hold on to his job.”
― Tom Gjelten, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

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“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

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“he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleaguered in the middle of the night.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“And that would be sufficient, if we lived in a world that was ruled by laws.” Aldred sat on a stool, leaned forward, and spoke quietly. “But the man matters more than the law, as you know.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

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“Terrible things rarely happen all at once,” she answers. “They’re incremental, so people don’t realize how bad things have gotten until it’s too late. He swore up and down that he wasn’t a communist. That he wanted democracy. Some believed him. Others didn’t.” “Did you—” “Believe? Support Fidel then?” I nod. “No.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

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