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The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
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What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?
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What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
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Expressed gratitude encourages further giving ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
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Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.
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Necessity is not merely the father of invention it is the father of courage.
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Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.
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If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.
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