"The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable."
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"That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing. So there are two things needed in the system, the one that's needed overwhelmingly is liquidity. I mean, when people are trying to [unintelligible], there has to be somebody there to buy."
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"You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World."
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"Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think."
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"You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life."
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"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
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"My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them."
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"Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words"
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"I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people."
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"If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore."
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"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise."
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"The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired."
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"Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers."
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"People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it."
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"The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it."
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"Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history."
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"Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure."
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"I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination."
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"I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts."
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"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
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