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When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
— Henry David Thoreau
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All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
— Emile M. Cioran
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