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One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

- Thomas Carlyle

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

- Danilo Dolci

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (attributed)

- Edmund Burke

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

- Rudyard Kipling

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

- Ann Radcliffe

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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

- Ella Williams

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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

- Jane Addams

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.

- Michel de Montaigne

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

- Harold Nicolson

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

- Annie Dillard

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.

- Michael Hanson

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