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1. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.
2. The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
3. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
4. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
5. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
6. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
7. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
8. When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy.
9. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
10. The first requisite for immortality is death.
11. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
12. Mankind deserves sacrifice — but not of mankind.
13. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
14. Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
15. Telling lies does not work in advertising.
16. The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
17. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.
18. Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.
19. Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
20. People find life entirely too time-consuming.