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Jack Ma Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
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"When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?"

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

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Aeschylus Playwright
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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops."

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Bertolt Brecht Playwright, Poet
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"There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it."

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