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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein

Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- Lord Chesterfield

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
- Isaac Newton

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- Edith Wharton

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- William James


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