Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are th…

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ✨ Henry Miller (1961). The Cosmological Eye, p.183, New Directions Publishing
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