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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
The two I had in mind were these (I'd posted both of them before):
"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness"
(Confucius)
and
So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable."
--Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund
"In order for the light to shine so brightly the darkness itself must be present" - Sir Francis Bacon
There's also
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast the light travels, itt finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett
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The two I had in mind were these (I'd posted both of them before):
"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness"
(Confucius)
and
So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable."
--Marian Wright Edelman,
founder of the Children's Defense Fund
- Sir Francis Bacon
There's also
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast the light travels, itt finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
- Terry Pratchett