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- Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff
- If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfit for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of the real man.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), on the Athenian mood during the Peloponnesian war (the eve of the decline of Athens' power)
- Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. 'Yes' is the answer.
- Swami X
- Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
- Machiavelli
- Wait here, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable.
- Rick Moranis, 'Little Shop of Horrors'
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The wicked at heart probably know something.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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