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“Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.”
“I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.”
“When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.”
“I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.”
“His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.”

Source : Interview with Joe Dedona, ritholtz.com. July 21, 2013.
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”

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