"There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence."

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

— T. S. Eliot