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" The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. "

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" We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. "

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" The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. "

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