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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

People Don't Talk About Anything

“People don’t talk about anything!”

“Oh, they must!”

“No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”

Ray Bradbury
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