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Слушать(AI)Thoughts on a Station Platform
It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.
Piet Hein
Piet Hein was not just a poet. He was a mathematician, inventor and designer as well. Being a Danish he often wrote under the Old Norse pseudony
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