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Commencement address1 quote
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty, unsexy ways, every day. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Epic poem1 quote
Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks. — Homer · 700 BC