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If not you, then who?

Not quite a quote, but bear with me. When lecturing, Maslow would…

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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called…

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“There’s no word in Tibetan for ‘guilty.’ The closest thing is ‘intelligent regret that decides to do things differently.”

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