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CAL NEWPORT

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

CAL NEWPORT

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

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