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William Wilberforce

"We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all."

Source : Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.256

William Wilberforce

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“Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.”
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”
“... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.”
“The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.”
“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
“If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income. California was milking interest and capital in about equal proportion. The plains states, however, were devouring capital as a gang of spendthrift heirs might squander a great capitalist's fortune.”

Source : Marc Reisner (1986). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water”
“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”

Source : "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.
“I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.”

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