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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

—W.S. Merwin

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A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for.

—John A. Shedd

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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

—Cynthia Heimel

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

—Rita Mae Brown

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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security . . . may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician, or any other of thousands of things, because . . . it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future.

—Henry M. Wriston

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Venus favors the bold.

—Ovid

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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

—Samuel Johnson

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The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

—Anne Sexton

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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back, but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

—Marian Wright Edelman

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If we had done as the kings told us five hundred years ago, we should all have been slaves. If we had done as the priest told us, we should all have been idiots. If we had done as the doctors told us, we should all have been dead. We have been saved by disobedience. We have been saved by the splendid thing called independence, and I want to see more of it. I want to see children raised so that they will have it.

—Robert Ingersoll

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and really being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

—Oscar Wilde

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My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.

—Unknown

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

—Pamela Hansford Johnson

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