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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#down #i #know #millions #nothing

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. ↗

— Xun Zi

#defer #die #each #follow #human

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#case #forces #growth #power #primarily

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#comes #creativity #follows #go #humor

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#fluctuations #folly #friend #look #market

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#embodies #enhanced #meaning #sensations

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home. ↗

— Edward Burns

#any #art #comfort #delivered #envelope

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#aggression #came #discussions #experiments #first

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode. ↗

— Steve Burns

#congratulations #episode #every #gotta #i