The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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Religion is the opium of the poor.

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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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