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Dave Eggers

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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
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The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt –.
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The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt –.
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A human’s choice is either to see new things, mountains, waterfalls, deadly storms and seas and volcanoes, or to see the same man-made things endlessly reconfigured.
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A human’s choice is either to see new things, mountains, waterfalls, deadly storms and seas and volcanoes, or to see the same man-made things endlessly reconfigured.
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That is when the commitment to change would be put to the test: when the cameras are gone and the reporters are gone and the glamour disappears and the tedium sets in – the crushing tedium. That is when you realize, in your solitary moments, how much of your life you will have to sacrifice to change the world.
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That is when the commitment to change would be put to the test: when the cameras are gone and the reporters are gone and the glamour disappears and the tedium sets in – the crushing tedium. That is when you realize, in your solitary moments, how much of your life you will have to sacrifice to change the world.
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PRIVACY IS THEFT.
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PRIVACY IS THEFT.
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Grief doesn’t arrive on schedule, as much as we’d like to.
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Grief doesn’t arrive on schedule, as much as we’d like to.
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It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.
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It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.
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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I’ll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I’ll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
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Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of their voices creating a wild, plaintive song of sorry and abandon and anger and love.
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Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of their voices creating a wild, plaintive song of sorry and abandon and anger and love.
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There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns – after the United States, it was, per capita the world’s most armed nation. Men wore AKs walking down the sreet. They brought them to weddings.
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There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns – after the United States, it was, per capita the world’s most armed nation. Men wore AKs walking down the sreet. They brought them to weddings.
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