Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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