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"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."

"Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. (Quarter=two bits)"

"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do."

"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."

"For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it."

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."

"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck."

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires."

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature."

"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."

"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains..."

"Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."