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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 15, 2026
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
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Robert W. Sarnoff  
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"  
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)  
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary  
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