A man's character is his guardian divinity. - Heraclitus

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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. -Taylor Swift

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. - Heraclitus

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Nature is wont to hide herself. - Heraclitus

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I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories. - Jesmyn Ward

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë

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My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. - Will Ferrell

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