Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Do the thing and you will have the power. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson