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Sunday December 1, 2013

Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
- John W. Gardner
   American writer and social reformer (1912-2002)

Source: Self-Renewal (buy from Amazon)




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