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Companies that form the foundation of our financial markets are shrinking and disappearing practically overnight. Their insatiable appetite for risk has permeated all sectors of the financial services industry, and has spread beyond our shores. Chris Dodd, Sen (D) http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/4572
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The Political Spectrum Explained! (1/3)
A good reason not to vote for McCain or Obama, but for a Constutional Republican (like Bob Barr) who bows all his motives to the rule of law, instead of a rule by some men, somewhere. Evidence that McCain isn't a Constitutional Republican (one who believes in the rule of law, not of men) ...
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You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you -- why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to. Clarice Starling The Silence of the Lambs
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The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. H. L. Mencken Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
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OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. Mark Twain
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