"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.“

-Robert Kennedy

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-Thomas A. Edison

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."

-Lao Tzu