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“You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.” quote by Sam Keen — Download Open image

“You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.”

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To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

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Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all…

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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private…

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TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

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