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" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "

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" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "

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" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "

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" You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. "

" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "

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" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

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" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "