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“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.”
― Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.”
― Ludmilla Ulitskaya, Daniel Stein, Interpreter