"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

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Source : "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

Mignon McLaughlin

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“I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.”
“Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.”
“I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.”
“The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.”
“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”

Source : John Wilder Tukey, David Roxbee Cox, Henry I. Braun (1994). “The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and principles of data analysis, 1949-1964”
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.”
“Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”

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