Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

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Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

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No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

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In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

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