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Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
Approximate author period: c. 1893 AD · industrial
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- Rudolf Steiner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1893 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Rudolf Steiner, based on documented lifetime 1861 to 1925. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78484 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78484 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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