...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
Tracy KidderThe problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.
Tracy KidderIn order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.
Tracy KidderIf you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen
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