"The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000."

-- Andrew Tobias

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“[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.”
“Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.”

Source : "The Management Team While Building Product: Keep It Small" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.
“The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.”
“The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about â€˜Godâ€™ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is selfâ€contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny â€˜God,â€™ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.”
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 01, 2015
“Academic success depends on research and publications.”
“Japanese train signs, station signs, are really representative of the Japanese mind to me, because it always has the station where you are, the station you were previously at, and the station that is the next station. When I came to New York, I was very confused. It just doesn't say where I was and where I was going. But I realized after a while probably most people don't need to know what station you were previously at. But I think it's just some weird Japanese mentality that we need to know, we need to connect the plot.”
“Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!”

Source : "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 200.

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