Almost everybody that comes here has has a past, and they're always running to something, some are running from something, but mostly they're running to a future.
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Asian American culture is probably destined to be a sort of transitory, ephemeral thing. The classic second generation experience — 'My parents really drove me hard and kids made fun of my weird lunch, until I went to college and met other people with the same background' — almost never lasts beyond the second generation. Assimilation happens.
Noah Smith
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. And so it is with the long voyage of life — but how seldom do we think of this when we are young, and planning our first departure!
Henry Ward Beecher — Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. And yet we speak of the horse as the cause of motion, and the oats as mere fuel. So we misread almost every force that moves us.
Samuel Butler — Notebooks