“While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.”
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The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
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The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
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Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
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One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
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While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
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