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We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous. ...So we use lots of… — Warren Buffett
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most… — Malcolm Forbes
It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they… — Unknown Author
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a… — George Cayley
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,… — Martin Van Buren
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the… — Simon Newcomb
Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by… — Igor Sikorsky
New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've done the space… — Richard Branson
In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing… — Sterling W Sill
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It… — Henning Mankell
I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false. — L. Ron Hubbard
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we… — Donald Berwick
It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical. — Victoria Pendleton
I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal.… — John Chamberlain
I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the… — Charlie Munger
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now,… — Vilfredo Pareto
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the… — Unknown Author
Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,… — G. H. Hardy
More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery… — Mira Sorvino
You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent. — Alan Shearer

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