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ethic of higher education still encourages students and teachers alike to accentuate ability, valorize perfection, and stigmatize anything that hints at intellectual (or physical) weakness.
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow. We save those we can.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“The following morning they were angry at the sun for rising, and couldn’t forgive the world for living on without her.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.”
― The Authenticity Project
― The Authenticity Project
“who have learned to brush the past aside instead of bowing before it. But where they have done so in service of their beloved individualism, we are attempting to do so in service of the common good.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
Tamara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tamara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
289 books
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76 friends
427 books
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14 friends
514 books
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64 friends
1,169 books
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14 friends
13 books
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10 friends
73 books
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3 friends
370 books
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12 friends
2,161 books
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179 friends
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