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" Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. "
William James
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" The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. "
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" Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. "
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