"Money is not a fund of knowledge."

--

Source : "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

John Kluge

“Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.”
“Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.”
“I misled people, including even my wife”
“There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.”

Source : Indianapolis Star, 20 Sept. 1914.
“Thereâ€™s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.”
“Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”
“When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.”

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