#awaken

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. ↗

— Phil Knight

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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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