The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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No one you love is ever truly lost.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

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