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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

tags: motivational, overcoming-obstacles

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“In every moment...we choose to see others either as people like ourselves or as objects. They either count like we do or they don't.”
― Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

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“Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.”
― Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

tags: thought-provoking

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“Seeing an equal person as an inferior object is an act of violence”
― Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

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“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: conviction, freedom, values

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