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I fight with myself in the ring of doubt and fear the rain ain’t gone but I can still see clear… Became a slave to master self a rich man, this one with knowledge happiness is his health
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It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
—L.R.Knost (via awelltraveledwoman)
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Engage the city, love the people, rehabilitate the culture
…don’t make the mistake of thinking that these three pupils of mine are some sort of super human creatures. They’re something much greater and more astounding than that: they’re normal men—a thing the world has never seen—and their feat is that they managed to survive as such. It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world’s doctrines, the accumulated evil of centuries—to remain human…
—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Helping people is difficult and unpredictable, and our interventions don’t always work, but successes are possible, and these victories are incredibly important… when a social problem is so vast as to be insoluble in its entirety, it’s still worth mitigating.”
-Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky
“Even in this generation living through computers, only love love love can reboot us.” -Common
