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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Asked Bloom Books Bunch Contemporary Everything Found Given Had Harold Having Him His Just Late Life Me Novels Read Shall Where Which Wisdom

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Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

~Amy Chua

Topics: About Affects Approval Asian Carol Children Even Fact Feel Found Gifted Hard Hard Work Highlight Importance In Fact Offer Often Parents Perform Performed Psychologist Research Stanford Talented Themselves Way While Work

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I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

~Amy Grant

Topics: Accordion Each Feel Fold Found Guess Like Much Music Other Over Passage Time Years You

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Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.

~Amy Purdy

Topics: Able Am Found Help How Legs Losing Obstacles Other Out Overcome People Sharing Since I Am

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When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Black Families Found Having Kind Other People Photographed Photographing Photography Seen Themselves Wanted Ways Were Who

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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Ample Avoid Been Carried Coffee Colony Day Ever Finished Found Hold Justification Later Me My Own Over Own Powerful Praise Puzzling Seemed Since Sitting Table Twin Using Weeping Writers Writing

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In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Because Change Escapes Found Guide Illusions Many Powerful Projects Real Reporting

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In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: America Busy Cooking Eating Enchanted Father Food Found Her Herself Judged Mother Newly Notice She Taste Too Where Whether

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I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Always Born Citizenship Considered Denied Encounter Found People Raised Say Still Switzerland Turks Who

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We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

~Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Topics: Before Block Cannot Conflict Cyprus Decisions End Enlargement Favor Found Hopefully Our Plan Solution Strongly Summit We Cannot Will

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