"Beware of geeks bearing formulas."

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Source : "In Letter, Warren Buffett Concedes a Tough Year" by David Segal, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2009.

Warren Buffett

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“Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1829). “The misfortunes of Elphin, by the author of Headlong hall”, p.89
“I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.”
“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”
“I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.”
“I donâ€™t think of myself as being a celebrity, itâ€™s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and itâ€™s getting worse. I canâ€™t tell whether my work is good or not.”

Source : "Lauren London Plays the Game". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. September 3, 2013.
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
“I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every manâ€™s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every manâ€™s counting houseâ€¦ The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.”

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