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When you don't get what you want, experience is what you get.


Only two things are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former
--Albert Einstein


The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party.
--John Keats

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