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“No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.”

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Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

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A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

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