"No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world."

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“I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...”
“A utopia cannot, by deï¬nition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.”
“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”
“Superstitions add texture to life.”
“The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.”
“You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.”
“Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.”
“I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.”

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