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| "What is
the meaning of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man
that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to
make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself
. Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and
write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the
universe, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right,
of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them? So far as a man thinks, he
is free."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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