#go

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. ↗

— Erica Jong

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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. ↗

— Bill Joy

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Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. ↗

— Steve Kerr

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Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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