The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be

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Religion is the opium of the poor.

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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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Never mistake motion for action.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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