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" I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. "

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" An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be. "

" I do not seek. I find. "

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

" At times I think and at times I am. "

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" We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. "

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" If not me, who? And if not now, when? "

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