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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thi

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. – Erica Jong

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. – Erica Jong

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Courage
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Erica Jong
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

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Change
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Erica Jong
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

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Poetry
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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. – Louis Nizer

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried. – Proverb

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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmasters eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. – Thomas Carlyle

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Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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A word also as to the cost of carriage: This is at present so high, whether the means be mail or express, that we may properly set it down as the chief obstacle to the free development of inter-library loans. – William Warner Bishop, “Inter-Library Loans,” 1909

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