Tracy Kidder Quotes

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• ...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. Attempts
• I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own.… Been
• The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you… Clothes
• ... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming. Keep Swimming
• That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. Airplane
• among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all All
• Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal… Autonomy
• Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. Bottom
• Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. Adventure

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