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“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” — Steve Jobs

Context:Persuading John Sculley (then CEO of Pepsi) to become Apple's CEO

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“Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.” — Abdul'-Baha

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“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.” — Nelson Mandela

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