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#1 I was born in 1989 in China, to a working-class family that lacked the money or influence to travel abroad. I spent my first four and a half years with my father's side of the family in Harbin, without my parents. I was named 思慕, meaning introspection or ideation.
#2 The kitchen was a series of open flames, next to a sink made of blackish-brown concrete, surrounded...
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#1 Don't be a dreamer. Be a doer.
#2 Lisa was a girl with frizzy hair, a flat chest, and a long last name that rhymed with shag-a-lamppost. She was average in every way except for one: she had a passion for movies. Lisa's passion eventually led her to meeting Hollywood, and she soon became a famous artist.
#3 Your parents don't always understand your dreams. They may...
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#1 One day, a Nobody named Ordinary woke up with a nagging feeling that something was missing from his life. He was made to be a somebody and destined to achieve great things, but he was never happy. He eventually realized that he would never be happy unless he could pursue his Big Dream.
#2 One evening, Ordinary went to visit his parents. He told them about his big...
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Get the Summary of Peter Hollins's The Power of Self-Discipline in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Power of Self-Discipline" by Peter Hollins is a comprehensive guide to understanding and cultivating self-discipline. The book illustrates the transformative power of self-discipline through Rosa's journey from a dreamer to a successful film director, emphasizing that self-discipline is about enduring discomfort...
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Get the Summary of Cicely Tyson's Just As I Am in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought...
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Get the Summary of Robert T. Kiyosaki's Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students and "B" Students Work for the Government in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Kiyosaki expands on his belief that the school system was created to churn out Es / Employees...those "A Students" who read well, memorize well and test well... and not the creative thinkers, visionaries, and dreamers - entrepreneurs-in-the-making...those...
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#1 The out-of-work explorer's situation is not a happy one. He is broke, and often worse than that. He longs to be off again, away from the fretting ties of civilization.
#2 I knew two of the men who died in the expedition: Mylius-Erichsen, a dauntless idealist, dreamer and poet, and the faithful Greenlander Jørgen Brønlund. I thought about their expedition and how they had tried...
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#1 The six cousins were unusually quiet as they ate their dinner. They were sharing a faint, unspoken melancholy at the thought of their imminent parting. They all knew that in twelve hours, the Cummins siblings would be packed into their parents' van and rolling eastward back to Washington, D. C.
#2 The six cousins spent their last night together playing games in the game room. They...
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#1 I was 18 years old, a freshman at the University of Arizona, when I decided to enlist in the military. I was shocked by the footage of the first Twin Tower collapsing, but it was an image within that image that gripped me deepest: the tiny speck of a human being plummeting fifty-plus stories to their death.
#2 I wanted to join the military, but I was afraid of the...
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#1 Curtis Emerson LeMay, the future president of the United States, was four years old in 1910, when he saw a flying machine pass overhead. He went chasing after it, and when he couldn't catch it, he was devastated. The memory of that plane would deeply influence the course of his life.
#2 Curtis LeMay, the eldest child, was born in 1906 in Columbus, Ohio. His father,...
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#1 I come from a family that was very close. I had many vivid memories of learning to fit in wherever I was, which served me well in my future life as a musician. I remember nearly drowning in Egypt and being pulled out by a man in a flowing blue cloak.
#2 My father was a wonderful, generous man who was taken from me too early. He was a gentleman and a dreamer, and I've...
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#1 The Battle of the Nieuwmarkt was the beginning of a loving relationship between Joseph and Fietje. They married in 1912 and had a daughter, Rebekka, in 1912. They moved into a small shop on Nieuwe Kerkstraat in 1921, and five years later, they had a son, Jacob.
#2 The Brilleslijper family lived in the Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam, and they were very close with their neighbors. But...
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