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All the evidence suggests that communication between people by whatever means, far from simply accomplishing its purpose, simply creates the need for more.

— John Brooks

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I found that business life is full of creative original minds -along with the usual number of second-guessers, of course.

A man´s study reflects himself as he wishes to be seen publicly, but his journal, if he is honest, reflects something else.

In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite.

On Thursday, March 14th, panic was added to chaos. London gold dealers, in describing the day´s action, used the un-British words "stampede", "catastrophe", and "nightmare".

The Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a document longer than "War and Peace", is phrased -inevitably, perhaps- in the sort of jargon that stuns the mind and disheartens the spirit.

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