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"Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest."
"Everything great and intelligent is in the minority"
"We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be."
"Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority."
"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority."
"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."
"In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right."
"Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow."
"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all."
"Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized."
"Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans."
"A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American."
"If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds."
"One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help."
"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one."
"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
"You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one."
"Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life."
"The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few."
"Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
