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Ripples #1348: Confessions of Character

PEBBLE
People seem not to remember that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, shared by Kat in Toronto, ON

BOULDER

People do not simply exist but always decide what their existence will be, what they will become in the next moment.…
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March 24, 2025
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