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Lisa Durff
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They’re just regular people who get obsessed by something and spend a ton of time thinking out loud about it.
Lorna was said we at ETT were ordinary people doing extraordinary things - in that case it was webcasting. I believe her thoughts apply equally well here.
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
― In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
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