"If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich. If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball. [...] And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12."

-- Howard Warren Buffett

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“The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.”

Source : "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.
“When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.”
“I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.”

Source : "Honesty is the best policy, Bob". Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org), July 19, 2007.
“I have no enemies and no hatred”

Source : "Liu Xiaobo: China's Poet-Dissident" by Suzanne Nossel, www.politico.com. December 28, 2017.
“A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!”
“I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.”
“I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.”
“Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.”

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