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"The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."
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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."
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"The effectiveness of your life is not determined by the duration of your life."
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"We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding."
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"It doesn't matter how long you live on planet earth, if by the time your whole life has evaporated, you have not solved the problems you were created to solve, then you wasted your life."
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"If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance."
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"To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn't just melt away like Salvador Dali's melting clock."
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"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."
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"If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary, you are re-investing it into yourself. You are multiplying the quality of your life."
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"Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me."
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"The destiny of future generations depends on our actions today."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
Civilization

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."
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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."
Creation

"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."
Escape

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
Flying

"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."
Isolation

"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
Fear

"Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness."
Strength

"The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
Memory

"Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."
Mental Health
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