"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.“
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