"Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined."

-- Richard Armour

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“Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed”
“I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.”
“Waves are like women, you can never get enough of them, always want a better, more dangerous one, and occasionally you get dumped.”
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?”
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”
“The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.”

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