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Sarah Jones Performs an Astonishing Chorus-of-Humanity Tribute to Jane Goodall

“What makes us human makes us fellow creatures, creeping things, fauna of a fragile terrestrial biosphere, neither more nor less. All lives are consequential.”

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Six Dots: The Remarkable Life and Legacy of Child Inventor Louis Braille, Illustrated

How a tenacious boy created one of the most life-changing inventions in human history.

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The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life

“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”

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Preaching to the Chickens: How Civil Rights Legend John Lewis’s Humble Childhood Incubated His Heroic Life

The unlikely pen that furnished a revolutionary talent for words that move and mobilize mind, body, and spirit.

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35 Odd Jobs Celebrated Painter Agnes Martin Held Before She Became an Artist

From butcher to ice cream scooper to elevator operator, “also raised rabbits and ducks.”

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Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: A Lovely Children’s Book About the World’s First Computer Programmer

How a little girl with dreams of flying changed the world in footnotes.

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Love Beyond Label: The Tender Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms

“I would gladly write to you only by means of music, but I have things to say to you to-day which music could not express.”

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A Partnership Larger Than Marriage: The Stunning Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell

“You are like the Great Spirit, who befriends man not only to share his life, but to add to it. My knowing you is the greatest thing in my days and nights, a miracle quite outside the natural order of things.”

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The Women Who Made New York: Restoring the Rightful Ratio of Remembrance

From artists to activists, an homage to the unheralded hands and hearts who built one of humanity’s most iconic cities.

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Young Barack Obama on What His Mother Taught Him About Love

“Perhaps that’s how any love begins, impulses and cloudy images that allow us to break across our solitude, and then, if we’re lucky, are finally transformed into something firmer.”

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Search results for “frida kahlo”

“What makes us human makes us fellow creatures, creeping things, fauna of a fragile terrestrial biosphere, neither more nor less. All lives are consequential.”

How a tenacious boy created one of the most life-changing inventions in human history.

“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?”

The unlikely pen that furnished a revolutionary talent for words that move and mobilize mind, body, and spirit.

From butcher to ice cream scooper to elevator operator, “also raised rabbits and ducks.”

How a little girl with dreams of flying changed the world in footnotes.

“I would gladly write to you only by means of music, but I have things to say to you to-day which music could not express.”

“You are like the Great Spirit, who befriends man not only to share his life, but to add to it. My knowing you is the greatest thing in my days and nights, a miracle quite outside the natural order of things.”

From artists to activists, an homage to the unheralded hands and hearts who built one of humanity’s most iconic cities.

“Perhaps that’s how any love begins, impulses and cloudy images that allow us to break across our solitude, and then, if we’re lucky, are finally transformed into something firmer.”

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