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If people would only take care of their own business and let other people mind theirs, there would be less friction in the world and more peace between the nations. The late Bernard Baruch, American financier and presidential adviser, said on his ninety-fourth birthday that the greatest lesson he had learned during his very long life was to mind his own business. For the Quester, with his special aims higher than the ordinary, it is even more advisable not to mix himself up unnecessarily in other people's affairs or destinies where he is not really responsible for them.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 432