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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#both #called #conservative #feet #firmly

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. ↗

— Sean Bean

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose. ↗

— Beck

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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. ↗

— Martha Beck

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#better #christ #christian #himself #honest

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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