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The New York Review of Books
“An old man says to his grandson: 'There's a fight going on inside me. It's a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil - angry, greedy, jealous, arrogant, and cowardly. The other is good - peaceful, loving, modest, generous, honest, and trustworthy. These two wolves are also fighting within you and inside every other person, too.' After a moment, the boy asks, 'Which wolf will win?' The old man smiles. 'The one you feed.”
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James Baldwin
“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around.”
James Baldwin

Willa Cather
“[H]uman relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time pulling away frm them.”
Willa Cather

W. Somerset Maugham
“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.”
W. Somerset Maugham;

“It is ridiculous to take money seriously, since it comes by chance, enslaves anyone who wants to hold on to it, and is lost by decent behavior.”
Bion of Borysthenes

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