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“Ideals are the cheapest things in life...those who never show a grain of effort, courage, or endurance have them on the most copious scale.” William James

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“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” T.S. Eliot

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“Only in recent history has ‘working hard’ signalled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.” Nassim Taleb

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"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art we are sometimes sent—dimly, briefly—revelations unattainable by reason." Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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“A man is obliged to live for himself, as an educated person ought to live.” Leo Tolstoy

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“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?” Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Distinctions—of taste, refinement, understanding—cannot fail to remind us that people are not equally interesting, equally admirable, or equally able to understand the world in which they live.” Roger Scruton

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"Those who tell the stories also rule the society." Plato