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  • Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Basil Rathbone As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Richard Whately As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Kofi Annan As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
    Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations (2012)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Alison Lurie As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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  • Bhagavad Gita As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Michel Foucault As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Asne Seierstad As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
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  • Bill Flores As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Audrey Hepburn As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Ben Hogan As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Franz Grillparzer As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
    Franz Grillparzer
    Austrian play writer (1791 - 1872)
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  • Bill Rancic Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Edgar R. Fiedler Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations… six if one went to Harvard.
    Edgar R. Fiedler
    American economist and politician (1929 - 2003)
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  • Betty Comden Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
    Betty Comden
    American musician and writer of screenplays (1917 - 2006)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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