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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

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“We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
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― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party

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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.”
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“Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.”
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