"Nick was experiencing the father’s catch-22: loving his family by being away from the love of his family."

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"We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers I hav…"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

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"There is also no lack of deterrents which keep saintliness at a distance from a person, but then again there is no lack of devices by which these deterrents may be held afar."

— Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Philosophy1707–1746

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"Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space."

— Willard van Orman Quine

Philosophy1908–2000

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"There are the two – the person and the witness, the observer. When you see them as one, and go beyond, you are in the supreme state. It is not perceivable, because it is what makes perception possible…"

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Education1897–1981

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