Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ”

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin. ”

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. ”

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. ”

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current. ”

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. ”

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. ”

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ”

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush. ”

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. ”