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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. ↗

— John Moody

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