Tears are not arguments. - Machado de Assis

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When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

Machado de Assis

Tears are not arguments.

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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

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He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

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A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

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Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

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There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

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