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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."

"It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well."
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