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  • Andy Hertzfeld As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III As you may know, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC, awards grants only to countries which rule justly, promote economic freedom, and invest in their people.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • B. D. Wong Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bernard Levin Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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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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  • Charles Dickens Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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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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  • Lord Arthur Balfour Ask with urgency and passion.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Ayn Rand Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • John Stuart Mill Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Thomas Hardy Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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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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  • Buzz Aldrin Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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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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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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