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“In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.”
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Source : 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25
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“If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”
Source : FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 24, 2013
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“And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.”
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“Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!”
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“Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.”
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“Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.”
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“A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.”
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“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.”
Source : "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.
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