When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

David Brin

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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Haruki Murakami

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

What we think, we become.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Benjamin Franklin

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

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