So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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