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"I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day." -
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"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
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"The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."
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