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"I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.
All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering,
are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key."
- Charles Fletcher Lummis

tabula rasa

 Pronunciation: "ta-by&-l&-'rä-z&, -s& 
the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state
Marjorie gazed thoughtfully at Will and said, "He was born innocent and ignorant, a true tabula rasa, and he seems destined to remain knowledge-free."

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