"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

Envy, Talent, Conflict, Mediocrity

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"The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren't much effective any longer and our sleep techniques need to evolve as rapidly as our life style has, in order to cope with it."

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