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The Storm
I thought of you when I was wakened
By a wind that made me glad and afraid
Of the rushing, pouring sound of the sea
That the great trees made.
One thought in my mind went over and over
While the darkness shook and the leaves were thinned
I thought it was you who had come to find me,
You were the wind. ~ Sara Teasdale

Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. ~ Christopher Paolini

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. ~ Michael Bennett

If you do things the same way you've always done them, you'll get the same outcomes you've always gotten. In order to change your outcomes, you've got to do things differently. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand ~ Sarah McCoy

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. ~ Alfred Thayer Mahan

We suddenly notice that what we always wanted is there, waiting for us, perhaps the very next day. ~ Paulo Coelho

Love is the language all animals understand. ~ Anthony D. Williams

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem. ~ Clay Shirky

I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart ... But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts ... ~ Elena Ferrante