Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Ben Bernanke Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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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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  • Baltasar Gracián Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bob Taft Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Eric Hoffer Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Brad Holland Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Thornton Wilder Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Benjamin Graham Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Albert Ellis Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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