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  • Benjamin Graham It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part IV, Ch. XVI, Reservoir Plan Versus Crop Contr
    ― Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
    ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
    ― Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Arthur E. Waite It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
    ― Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Bill Gates It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
    ― Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Philip Roth Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
    ― Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • James Weldon Johnson Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
    ― James Weldon Johnson
     
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    ― W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sigmund Freud Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
    ― Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
    ― Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Booth Tarkington Major Amberson had made a fortune in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.
    ― Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
    ― Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Sophocles Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
    ― Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Charles Dickens Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    ― Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ovid Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
    ― Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Charles Dickens Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    ― Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Anna Held My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
    ― Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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