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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank

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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

- Thomas Edison

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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

- Vaclav Havel

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E. B. White

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When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, "Have faith and take your troubles to God." Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

- Martin Buber

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

- Booker T. Washington

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Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks -- we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

- Parker J. Palmer

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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

- Faye Wattleton

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

- Marie Curie

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

- Jesse Jackson

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Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

- William Arthur Ward

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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

- Margaret Mead

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The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

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Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

- Leo Tolstoy

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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

- Thomas Paine

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If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

- Sandra Cisneros

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The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.

- George MacDonald

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

- Booker T. Washington

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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

- George Eliot

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