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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the one thing I can do.

—Edward Everett Hale

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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

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I want to put a ding in the universe.

—Steve Jobs

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Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Warrior Heir

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

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The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

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Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.

—Carlos Fuentes

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An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself.

—Vaclav Havel

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Duke of Cambridge protested that he wasn't arguing against change. He favored it, he said, when there was no alternative.

—Unknown

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

—Peter Drucker

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Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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