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Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science
Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science

“No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

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Annie Dillard on Writing
Annie Dillard on Writing

“At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then — and only then — it is handed to you.”

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Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters
Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters

“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”

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Presence, Not Praise: How To Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Achievement
Presence, Not Praise: How To Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Achievement

Why instilling admiration for hard work rather than raw talent is the key to fostering a well-adjusted mind.

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Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning
Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning

“When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within.”

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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”

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George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy
George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy

“Promiscuity is a product of slavery and not of liberty.”

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Intuition Pumps: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Dignity of Being Wrong and Art-Science of Making Fertile Mistakes
Intuition Pumps: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Dignity of Being Wrong and Art-Science of Making Fertile Mistakes

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself.”

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Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value
Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value

“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”

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Letters to Ms.: How Mary Thom Built “Social Media” for Women’s Rights in the 1970s
Letters to Ms.: How Mary Thom Built “Social Media” for Women’s Rights in the 1970s

Celebrating the invisible art of making a movement visible.

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