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“That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.”

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...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

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“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense…

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There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

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