No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge. - Democritus

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If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.

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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

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