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-- Albert Schweitzer Financial Services An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- George Bernard Shaw Financial Services
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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-- Dr. Strangelove The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Financial Services "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- G. K. Chesterton Financial Services If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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-- Mark Twain Financial Services He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Financial Services Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Financial Services God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Financial Services Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Men have become the tools of their tools.
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