"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
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"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
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"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 and Dying
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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Barth, John on Heroes and Heroism
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"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 and Living
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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
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"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
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"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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