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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. ↗

— Plato

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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. ↗

— Robert Creeley

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The bottom of the sea is cruel. ↗

— Hart Crane

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And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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