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  • Plutarch When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bob Diamond When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
    Source: A Theory of Roughness
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Burt Rutan When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Carol Loomis When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bob Hope When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Byron Katie When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Bipasha Basu When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bernard Barton When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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  • Jacob Boehme When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
    Jacob Boehme
     
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
    Source: A Distant Mirror Admiral Jean de Vienne, quoted on p. 559
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Shana Alexander When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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