"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."

-- John D. Rockefeller

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“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.”
“Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.”
“To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight”
“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
“Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.”
“I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more like me." Which is judgemental and arrogant, to try and change somebody else's perspective just so that the world can seem better for you. It's important that we have these contrasts in life - nothing was ever created by being the same.”
“There can be no separation in your organization. You win as a team, you lose as a team.”
“The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.”

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