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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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