"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?"
"Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure."
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Source: Pirkei Avot. A Mishna tractate. Chapter 1:12, www.chabad.org.
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