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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
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Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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It's oppressive. ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to do this. They seem to be about things that are fun, not things you have to spend lots of hours on and then fail at.
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Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.
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Spaghetti is no food for fighters,
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The true spirit of Christmas is love
