the primary ingredients needed for a society to flourish are the basic needs of food and shelter combined with what your people call healthcare and the liberty for mental growth. Once those needs are satisfied, all that is required for a
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“Do you know how many deathbeds I sat at all those years? And do you know what those dying people regretted most? All the lives they never led because they thought they might regret them.”
― Woodworking
― Woodworking
“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“We are, none of us, a single set of destinies set by the accident of our birth. We can change and be changed. Our bodies know the language they must speak to make us the people we must become.”
― Woodworking
― Woodworking
“But a person’s life is their own. Few sins are greater than trying to squeeze someone else into the shape you require them to be.”
― Woodworking
― Woodworking
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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