"Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise."

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A. L. Rowse

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“By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.”
“I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.”
“I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.”
“human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”
“Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.”
“The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.”
“The public must and will be served.”
“If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.”

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