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“that never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Compassion, what I sometimes also call human affection, is the determining factor of our life. Connected to the palm of the hand, the five fingers become functional; cut off from it, they are useless. Similarly, every human action becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, My Spiritual Journey: Personal Reflections, Teachings, and Talks

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
― Horace Mann