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Kenneth Patton (adapted):
By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbors will find our contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more gracious for our time in it.

 

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No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

 

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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

 

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

 

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

 

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Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)

 

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

 

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Margaret Mead:
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

 

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If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

 

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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.

 

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It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

 

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

 

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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

 

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You really can change the world if you care

 

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

 

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

 

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

 

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Our true wealth is the good we do in this world. None of us has faith unless we desire for our neighbors what we desire for ourselves.

 

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

 

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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.