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And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chinese civilization is the experience of the nuclear family writ large, and just as extended families are expected to look after their own survival, China has long felt that it ought to be self‐sufficient.
What's Wrong With China
Paul Midler
But he believed his richly human case histories were no less important than his great neuropsychological treatises. Luria’s endeavor—to combine the classical and the romantic, science and storytelling—became my own, and his “little book,” as he always called it (The Mind of a Mnemonist is only a hundred and sixty small pages), altered the focus and direction of my life, by serving as an exemplar not only for Awakenings but for everything else I was to write.
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