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" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Effort

Creative

Living

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Investigate

You

Judge

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Contempt

Constant

Exposure

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She

Only

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You

Storm

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Human

Powerful

Discipline

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Fortune

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