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“The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.