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“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“[l]ove of kindness, without a love to learn, finds itself obscured by foolishness. Love of knowledge, without a love to learn, finds itself obscured by loose speculation. Love of honesty, without a love to learn, finds itself obscured by harmful candour. Love of straightforwardness, without a love to learn, finds itself obscured by misdirected judgment. Love of daring, without a love to learn, finds itself obscured by insubordination. And love for strength of character, without a love to learn, finds itself obscured by intractability”
― Henry Kissinger, On China

“Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift.”
― Noam Chomsky

“A man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning