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

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

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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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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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

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

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

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