"Idleness is to the human mind like rust…" — Ezra Cornell

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• When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
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• No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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