We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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To poverty I owe the fact that I never went to college. I spent those four years in the school of experience instead of the school of theory.
Claude Hopkins — Founders
We we self-deprecate and we sort of downplay ourselves and our dreams throughout our life. Especially for people who grow up in marginalized communities and people who are not necessarily, you know, born and raised here or people who come from immigrant or refugee families and it's time to sort of reclaim ourselves and our dreams and our narratives.
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On some of these trips, actually, when you get into the kayak, you don't even know. You stretch the spray skirt on over the cockpit and you don't know if that's the last time you'll ever be doing that and you sort of pray that it's not.
Peter Heller — Fresh Air