"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

Edwards, Flora on giving
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"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."

Walesa, Lech on change   

"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Freud, Sigmund on humankind   

"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."

Falls, Rebecca on listening
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"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."

Traver, Amos on death
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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Barth, John on heroes and heroism   

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on books - reading
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."

Brooks, Mel on writers and writing
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

Baldwin, James on identity
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"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."

Retton, Mary Lou on choice   

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?"

Carson, Johnny on opportunity
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"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

Bird, Larry on winners and winning
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"It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ."

Auden, W. H. on talent
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"This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it."

Montesquieu, Charles De on talent   

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"Talent is only the starting point."

Berlin, Irving on talent
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