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This is your job as a citizen.

The single most important practice in stoic philosophy is differentiating between what

we have control over and what we don't.

Epictetus said, the chief task in life is simply this, to identify and separate matters

so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control and which

have to do with the choices I actually control.

Where then do I look for good and evil not to uncontrollable externals but within myself

to the choices that are my own?

Well today we are calling on you to perform your chief task in life.

You don't control the dark money that is flooded politics.

You don't control the mediocre or awful candidates out there.

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