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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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