"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
— Greatness

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts (August 31, 1837); in Nature, Addresses and Lectures (vol. 3 of The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1906), p. 100