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Read more: Moral courage“Moral cowardice is something which I think I never had,” Abraham Lincoln once said. Lincoln had moral courage. I found this quote in Jon Meacham’s…
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Read more: The arc of justiceI always thought that this was a quote from Abraham Lincoln, but Jon Meacham, in his book And There Was Light–Abraham Lincoln and the American…
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Read more: Let there be light“I do not despair this country….The fiat of the Almighty—“let there be light”—has not yet spent its force,” Frederick Douglas once said. I found this…
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Read more: Good role modelsQian Julie Wang decided that she would become a lawyer. An avid reader, Wang explains, “I had come upon and gulped down condensed biographies of…
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Read more: Solid groundQian Julie Wang, author of Beautiful Country, came to the United States in 1994 when she was seven years old. She often went to school…
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Read more: Beauty and dignityQian Julie Wang, author of Beautiful Country, reports that her mother told her “that a woman could be beautiful without being pretty, but that a…
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Read more: Be stillRushing. I think I have lots to do. Maybe a bit overwhelmed. “I’ve been thinking,” says Emily St. John Mandel in her book Sea of…
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Read more: A woman without a man“A woman without a husband is not a problem to be solved,” writes Jane Austen in her book Persuasion. Jane Austen is a wise woman.…
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Read more: Reasonable?Jane Austen writes: “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!” Jane Austen is a wise woman. I am going to read Persuasion…
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Read more: Wise and reasonableJane Austin writes: “She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise…