"Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner."

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Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

Ida Tarbell

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“Steak is delicious and cows are stupid.”
“Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse”

Source : William James McGee, George Crumb (1982). “An expanded concept of timbre and its structural significance: with a timbral analysis of George Crumb's Night of the four moons”
“Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.”
“A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.45, Egmont UK
“To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.”
“Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.”

Source : John Marin (1970). “John Marin”
“You canâ€™t have a bully without a victim.”

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