"Most people have it all wrong about wealth in America. Wealth is not the same as income. If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend."

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Source : Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.1, Government Institutes

Thomas J. Stanley

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“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”
“There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.”
“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”
“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”
“White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.”

Source : "Bill Kristol:”White Women Are A Problem, That’s, You Know — We All Live With That”, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.19, Penguin
“Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.”
“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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