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Robert
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He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
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― New Spring
― New Spring
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First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the worlds ills -‐-‐ against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the worlds great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a yo
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