"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."

-- Thomas Hobbes

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“Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.”
“I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance." "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?”
“We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.”
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

Source : Quoted in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 27 Oct. 1993
“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the clichÃ© that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.”
“I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.”
“In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose”
“Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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