"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

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"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

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"A book is a sacred gift."

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"A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver."

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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

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"Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings."

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"Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!"

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"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death."

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"Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true."

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