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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.104, Harvard University Press
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.104, Harvard University Press

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