Learn to think for a long time how to change the world.
--Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god. Quoted by Mary Pipher (1947-), Writing to Change the World (2006)
If we wait for the saints to change the world, it will be too late.
--Mary Pipher (1947- ), Writing to Change the World (2006)
Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I enteredthe clarity of early morning.
--Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), "Late Ripeness" in Second Space: New Poems (2005)
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