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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

"Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route."

"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."

"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."

"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so."
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