#cap

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair! ↗

— Felicity Huffman

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The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. ↗