{"quotes":[{"text":"[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.","author":"Sonia Sotomayor","tags":["learning","life-lessons","lifelong-education","teachers"],"id":9625,"author_id":"Sonia+Sotomayor"},{"text":"Ask and wait expectantly for the answer.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["answering","answers-and-questions","answers-are-questions","ask-the-right-question","asking","asking-advice","asking-questions","educational","helping-hand","inspirational","inspired-soul","learning","lifelong-education","lifelong-learner","mentoring","mentors","motivational","question-everything","questions-and-answers","questions-in-life","seeking-truth","student-of-life","student-potential","teachers-and-learners","wait","waiting","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":13619,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Blessed is the person who desired to read the Holy Scriptures. 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But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["book","lifelong-education","reading","seeking-knowledge","self-improvement","sleepless-nights"],"id":65646,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Keep reading, Keep learning.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ambition","determined-spirit","education","educational-philosophy","learn","life-philosophy","lifelong-education","personal-development","personal-growth","read","reading-habits","self-education","self-realization"],"id":72010,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}