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Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

—Hugh Macleod

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Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

—Anna Lappe

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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

—William Shakespeare

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

—Woodrow Wilson

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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

—Ellen Goodman

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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

—Steve Jobs

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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

—Peter McWilliams

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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

—J. K. Rowling

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Never regret something that once made you smile.

—Amber Deckers

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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

—Jane Austen

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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

—Shimon Peres

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Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

—Adele Brookman

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We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.

—Olive Schreiner

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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

—Elizabeth Janeway

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Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

—Dr. Frank Crane

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