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“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.”

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“We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.”

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"A lot of what we experience as strengths comes from knowing what to do with weakness".

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"A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with our weaknesses."

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"Nathaniel's bow is a fluid and obedient slave, his fingers dancing ballet on the fresh-varnished neck, and the music cuts him off from noise, worry, fear, illness."

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"but as days go by, my old life is beginning to look exceedingly strange"

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“ How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?”

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"You can either put up a shield so the unhappiness doesn't touch you, or you can be open to it and absorb it yourself." (48)

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"Every time the phone rings at night, my stomach does a flip. I'm always sure its the police, calling to say Nathaniel is hanging on by a thread after a mugging, and nice going, Mr. Columnist. Along with giving him two brand new instruments, why didn't I paint a bulls-eye on his back?"

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"He lives in two distant constellations, this man who fends off rats on Skid Row and holds forth at Disney Hall, mingling easily with members of the orchestra." (pg. 118)

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"What you don''t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life."

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"But as days go by, my old life is beginning to look exceedingly strange."

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"Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as an untrustworthy person, you may begin to feel less trustworthy yourself."

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"The instruments arrive. First one violin-- which the owner has enclosed in a Sears chain-saw box-- then another then another, and then comes the shipment from Mr. Rich of the Pearl River Piano Group."

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Please write one quote from your weekly reading that resonated with you. Be prepared to discuss. :)

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Why does anybody put up with this when there are so many other jobs available?

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“I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.”

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“One of the greatest joys of my job is the chance to hold the feet of public officials to the fire”