"Friendship is Love without wings."

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“The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.”

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“Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!”

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— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Education1897–1981

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— Derrick Jensen

Social Activism1956–2017

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