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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
- Thomas L. Holdcroft

Investment is an act of faith
- Keynes

Empires of the future are the empires of the mind
- W. Churchill

Out beyond the ideas of wrong doing and right doing there's a field, I'll meet you there.
- Rumi


“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
-  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Man’s most enduring stupidity is forgetting what he is trying to do,”
-  German philosopher Nietzsche’s admonition


“Negotiating … assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”
- post-war Secretary of State Dean Acheson's trenchant observation