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“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
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“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”
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“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.”
― The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
― The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.”
― 1984
― 1984
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