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“Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.”
Source : George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.108, Penguin
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“Building cultures of peace is long-haul work, undramatic and unheralded, and often infinitely tedious, and most of the people doing it probably don't even think of themselves as practitioners of nonviolence. Maybe it's time they did.”
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“When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.”
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“If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk”
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“He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.”
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“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
Source : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ernest Bell, Andrew Moore (2009). “Minna Von Barnhelm, Or, the Soldier's Fortune”, p.34, Mondial
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“I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.”
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“public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.”
Source : Sybille Bedford (2017). “A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error”, p.280, New York Review of Books