"It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”
“You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.”
“Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.”

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.320, Harvard Business Review Press
“Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”
“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.”
“Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.”
“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.”

Source : Thierry de Duve, Clement Greenberg (1996). “Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg”, Dis Voir Editions
“[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.”

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