"On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India."

-- Dervla Murphy

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“What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.”
“You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.”
“Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.”
“Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, youâ€™ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the ideaâ€™s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesnâ€™t, itâ€™s still a more interesting path than being nothing.”
“I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.”

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“He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.”
“There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. Itâ€™s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.”
“I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm.”

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