"No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can."

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Wangari Maathai

#Matter Quotes #Capability Quotes

“To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.”
“Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?”
“You get a taste here in New Orleans that you don't get anywhere else in the country.”
“I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.”

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“A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.”
“Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.”
“Man can change his conditions by changing his words.”
“Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.”

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