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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

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Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by

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You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

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