Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

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It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ― Frank Herbert

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Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation. — Teresa Amabile

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. ― Marcus Aurelius

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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

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