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“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

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“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

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“Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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