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“I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields