Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back. Aaron Swartz
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This quote is so powerful and so true, it instantly makes you think about the way we all grow up. We hear so many things and we believe them, and we never question what we hear, and it is because of this that we grow into the people that we are today. This quote is also very inspiring as it shows that there is no going back to how things were at one point in our lives. The only way to go forward is to be brave and overcome whatever obstacle may be in your way.

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