If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
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A lie told often enough becomes truth.
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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