Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston in The Woman Warrior, 1976
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The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

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The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

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