- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond Quotes
On pushing past appearances and limits.
One recurring idea in this set is that snap judgment gets in the way of noticing anything worthwhile once you look past first impressions. Another quote credits art and communication with keeping people alive through hard, sad years they might not otherwise have survived past thirty.
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- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.
- Digital Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
- Endowment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential. How core protocol work is best funded beyond the initial Ethereum Foundation endowment is an open question, but likely further out.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020