"Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting."

-- William D. Cohan

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“Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.”
“The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!”
“I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.”
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.”
“I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.”
“Everything kind of was leading towards that and I had so many specific ideas always about how exactly I wanted something to look. I would customize so many things in my wardrobe that were vintage or things that I was buying, and it just really all aligned and the timing was perfect.”
“A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.”
“Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.”

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