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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
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“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures”
― Musonius Rufus
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