A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject - Sir Winston Churchill
	I think it would be a good idea - M.K. Gandhi (in reply to someone asking what he thought of Western Civilization)
	A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on - Sir Winston Churchill
	Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth - Will Rogers
	Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein
	I must say that I find television very educational.  The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book - Grouch Marx
	Outside a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside a dog, it's too dark to read - Groucho Marx
	Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others - Groucho Marx
	Live within your income. Even if you have to borrow money to do so - Josh Billings
	Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip - Will Rogers
	USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population - David Letterman
	Economists use statistics like drunks use lampposts: for support more than for light - Winston Churchill
	Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day - Polish Proverb
	Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future - Yogi Berra
	It will fluctuate - J.P. Morgan      (in reply to someone asking for his expert view on the stock market)
	Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote - Warren Buffett (quoting Lord Chesterfield)
	I am not a speed reader.  I am a speed understander - Isaac Asimov
	Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions - Woody Allen
	A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain  - Robert Frost
	If you owe the bank money, you are in trouble. If you owe the bank a lot of money the bank is in trouble - Anonymous Parable
	I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen
	It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about, its the return of my investment - Will Rogers
	I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter - Sir Winston Churchill
	When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions - their reasons are always different - George Santayana
	Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them.  If they were jerks before they had money, they are now simply jerks with a billion dollars  - Warren E. Buffett
	Call on God, but row away from the rocks - Indian Proverb
	The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves.  But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do - Warren E. Buffett
	If only God would give me a clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank - Woody Allen
	Never judge a book by its movie - J. W. Eagan
	A classic is a book that everyone wants to have read and nobody want to read - Mark Twain
	If you think education is expensive, try ignorance - Derek Bok
	I buy expensive suits . . . they just look cheap on me - Warren Buffett
	There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval - George Santayana
	How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it? - Charles T. Munger
	I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by - Douglas Adams, Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
	The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources - Albert Einstein
	Ironically, 3 out of 4 workers sitting in cubicles are expected to think outside the box - Kenneth Cole
	Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger - Franklin P. Jones
	Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.  That way, when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes - Unknown
	I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth - even if it costs him his job - Samuel Goldwyn
	Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern hospitality - John F. Kennedy
	Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac - George Carlin
	Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened - Sir Winston Churchill
	If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide  - M.K. Gandhi

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