Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The truth is that we are all hanging breathless on our fate. In the old days, there were lots of books and wisdom that showed us how to live a good life. It’s not that these books have been forgotten. The truth is that there just aren’t any more of them.

We have a world full of them, but no one reads them anymore. To make things worse, the government has taken over the education system and they show kids a bunch of lies about how to live their lives. So, we’re all hanging breathlessly on our own fates.

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