#seals

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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#below #clowns #little #seals #trained

I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ↗

— Eric Greitens

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#navy-seals #pericles #education