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David Foster Wallace
“Mediocrity is contextual.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Will Durant
“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
Will Durant

Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

David Foster Wallace
“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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