"If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop ..." - Lailah Gifty Akita

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that...”

— Seneca

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“Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.”

— Ayn Rand

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“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I won...”

— Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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“My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products th...”

— Wendell Berry

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“After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see hi...”

— Alain de Botton

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“In my errant life I roamedTo learn the secrets of women and men,Of gods and dreams.I've known all the countries of our world,I've lived a thousand lives:Many lives I lived in love, Other lives I sq...”

— Roman Payne, The Wanderess

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— Roman Payne

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