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Wanting to know. Everybody wants to know. But maybe growing up means accepting that you're not always able to.



Graham Moore, The Holdout
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I felt so sure then. ‘Course, I was younger. It’s easier to be certain of things then. The older you get the more you see how certainty depends on one blindness or another.



Catherine Lacey, Pew
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So I just keep asking myself, ‘Can you love someone who did bad things? Can you still love them?’

Dec 07, 2017

Sarah Silverman, I Love You America
Wisdom
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I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Nov 22, 2017

Melissa McCarthy,
Human RIghtsWisdom
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

Nov 22, 2017

Jada Pinkett Smith,
WisdomWork
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Dec 07, 2017

Pablo Picasso,
Arts & LiteratureWisdom
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You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

Dec 07, 2017

Ansel Adams,
Arts & LiteratureWisdom
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This recent calling out of sexual assault has been a long time coming. And it's good. It's like cutting out tumors: it's messy, and it's complicated and it is going to hurt. But it's necessary. And we'll all be healthier for it. And it sucks — and some of our heroes will be taken down, and we will discover bad things about people we like. And sometimes, even people we love.

Dec 07, 2017

, I Love You America
Equal rightsWisdom
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Oct 01, 2017

Maya Angelou,
Wisdom
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after 30 seconds.

Oct 01, 2017

Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
WisdomWork
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