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“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote

William Gibson
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
William Gibson

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