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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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• It is a luxury to be understood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• There is no knowledge that is not power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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• The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
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