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Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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The Spirit That Runs Through You and Me

This is how one writes a powerful essay. Nothing needs to be cut away. Oucannot abridge this. All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this. And another imploration at the heart of emerson's self reliance is this idea to be better. And you can be better by doing right now. He calls out across the ages and says, let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times. This an empowering paradime shift. The picture waits for my verdict. I am reminded of that scene in breaking bad when bryan cranston's character tells scyle, i am the one who knocks.

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