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Ideal aspirations are not enough, when uncombined with pluck and will.
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Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
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We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.