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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them"

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
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"The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way."

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Hugo Chavez Politician
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"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight."

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Anthony Green Artist
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"If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path."

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