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A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can.
-George B. Shaw
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Arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy it. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E.B. White
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My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. ~Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, 1977
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I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London
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"an ounce of doing is worth a pound of theorizing."
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape." -Frank Moore Colby
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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism
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