The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. - Alberto Moravia

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All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

Alberto Moravia

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

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And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

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It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

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The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

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. . . my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

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