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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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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Never mistake motion for action.

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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

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

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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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