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“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”
― In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
― In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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