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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
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"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."

"The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly."

"He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength."

"It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity."

"To live in purpose is to understand the moment of conception."

"Your calling multiplies you."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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