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“Keeping your hard-earned dollars from taking a one-way trip to Washington is indeed a challenge ... and one worthy of your most careful attention. Few other endeavors will add more to your net worth, since the only money you will ever have for investing and spending is what the government lets you keep.”
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“We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high. If it is a long defeat it is also a victory, meaningful for the initiates of time, if not for those who have come less far.”
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“Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, any claimed or implied conflict of 'the public interest' with private interests means that the interests of some men are to be sacrificed to the interests and wishes of others. Since the concept is so conveniently undefinable, its use rests only on any given gang's ability to proclaim that 'The public, c'est moi — and to maintain the claim at the point of a gun.”
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“... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.”
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“Character demonstrates itself in trifles.”
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“Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.”
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“... nobody listened to a man who had spent his life on one idea.”
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“[They] hunted mushrooms with Moravian cunning and passion.”