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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."

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Diogenes Laertius Philosopher
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"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities."

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