"The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street."

-- Bernard Madoff

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“No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.”
“Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.”

Source : James Harrington, John Toland, John Hall (1737). “Oceana”, p.516
“No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.”
“Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit”
“Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社
“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.”

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