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"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

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"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed."

Ray Goforth

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"To succeed, however, in anything at all, one should go understandingly about his work and be prepared for every emergency."

Joshua Slocum

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"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."

Richard Buckminster Fuller

(I find this interesting because Mr. Fuller was a brilliant mind and this is probably the opposite of the truth... =P)

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"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."

Vinoba Bhave

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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."

Isaiah Berlin

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"Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?"

Chuck Palahniuk

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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

Groucho Marx

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"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

Garrison Keillor