Everything Contains a Thing but you have to understand that thing
I like to build things. I like to do things.
An attitude of gratitude brings great things.
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
There is no such thing as a pretty good omelet.
There are such things as false truths and honest lies.
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it.
Only tall things cast shadows.
A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.
Think of many things, do only one.
Love tells us many things that are not so.
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