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Clowee

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“Yang hawak mong diploma, para 'yan sa iba, hindi para sa'yo.”
― Ricky Lee, Kulang na Silya at Iba pang Kuwentong Buhay: Essays on Life and Writing

tags: graduation, inspirational

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“We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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“It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

tags: colonialism, culture, culture-and-imperialism, modernity, progress, sherpas

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