"Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?"

-- Jonathan Clements

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“The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.”
“Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.”

Source : "Eric Church: I “Never Intended” to Offend Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood". www.usmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.
“The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.”
“Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.”
“Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.”
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
“It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.”

Source : "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.
“I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.”

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