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Mara came back to the staff kitchen for one reason . She wanted her tutor's original line on the noticeboard before the open evening , because the shortened one made him sound careless . The printout was already pinned , and already wrong . He had written that an idea survives only if someone will carry it and let it change . The poster kept the first half . Under a photograph of smiling students it said , An idea survives if someone carries it . Change was gone . So was the cost . " People read that one , " said Lewis , rinsing mugs . " The long version sits in the handbook . Nobody quotes a handbook in a corridor . " " They are quoting a sentence he did not write . " " They are quoting the part they can finish . " Lewis turned the tap off . " I tried the full line at the last briefing . Halfway through , people were on their phones . Then Priya said the short one , and the room nodded . I am not proud of it . I am telling you what happened . " Mara had heard the short line from a student who had never met her tutor , and again from a donor who praised them for keeping things simple . Both had sounded sincere . That was what she could not dismiss . Nobody had broken into a file . The sentence had been picked up , trimmed , and passed on by people who thought they were being faithful . " If you want his words on the board , I will print them , " Lewis said . " Tell me who will repeat them after they leave . If the answer is only you , we are decorating a wall . " She looked at the poster . The short line was cleaner , and it claimed something else . Carry an idea , and survival follows . Her tutor had meant a harder thing : carriers alter what they carry . She could hear him refusing to stop at the easy half . She took the pin out . For a moment she wanted the evening to use his words exactly , as a rescue . Then she pictured the donor , the student , and Priya's nod , and saw the rescue fail . The room had already chosen a version it could pass along . Exact wording would stay in her bag . " Print both , " she said . " His line at the top . Under it , the short one , labeled as what people actually repeat . I will not pretend they are the same sentence . " Lewis nodded . " That may annoy everyone . " " Good . " She smoothed the paper flat , not to hang it , but to see the cut . The idea had left the room simpler than it entered . She could not force the missing half back into other people's mouths . She could refuse to call the remainder his .
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