Frank A. Vanderlip famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.
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I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
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The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
-- Frank A. Vanderlip
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.
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There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
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So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts
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Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
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Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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