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Gore Vidal
: The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
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Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
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Charles Caleb Colton :
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Judith M Bardwick :
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Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
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How much money is enough?
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Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far — quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
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Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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