A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
- Topic: Action, Communication, Listening, Negotiation, Persuasion
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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