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  • Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Persius Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Russell Baker Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Byron Katie Is it true?
    Can you absolutely know that it's true?
    How do you react when you believe that thought?
    Who would you be without the thought?
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Adam Michnik Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bob Costas It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
    Source: Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995
    Bob Costas
    American sportscaster (1952 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Abe Fortas It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
    Source: Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Angela Merkel It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Bud Abbott It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
    C.E.M. Joad
     
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  • Gerard De Nerval It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Andrew Young It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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