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Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.

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Adora Svitak
Age: 27
Born: 1997
Born: October 15
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I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.
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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
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The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
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We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.
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In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
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With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
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Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
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CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
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Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
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Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
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My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible.'
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