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I don't even get an allowance.
I don't even get an allowance.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns read more
Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to read more
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. read more
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I read more
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare read more
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
