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The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.

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If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat? Thomas Friedman
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The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes. Martin Buber
The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives. Paul Ryan
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I never did anything dishonest. T. Boone Pickens
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A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. Max Hastings
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Everything I do is part of my passion. Harry Connick, Jr.
Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage. Roberto Bolano
strange that I should choose you for the confidante of all this, young lady; passing strange that you should listen to me quietly, as if it were the most usual thing in the world for a man like me to tell stories of his opera - mistress to a quaint, inexperienced girl like you! Charlotte Bronte
Our epoch has been give many nicknames--the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey. Aldous Huxley
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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do. Pat Metheny
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. John Fowles