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“Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?”

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Margaret Ayer Barnes

Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright born on April 8, 1886, and passed away on October 25, 1967. Known for her profound social insights and exploration of female characters, her works have left a lasting impact on American theater. more

“Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"... all of us.”

Known Enemy Worst Industry Mets Instinct Marketing Innocent Fund Mutual Investors Suicidal Indulge Worst Enemy Bystanders Carnage Weaponry Mutual Fund Colossus

Author:John C. Bogle

“The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.”

Roles Fund Mutual Investors Principal Mutual Fund

Author:John C. Bogle

“The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.”

Faces Successful Sea Presses Calm Storm Rough Attributes Investors Howl Quintessential Calm Seas Rough Seas

Author:John C. Bogle

“A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.”

Men Way Feels Use Passion Strong Numbers Emotion Ordinary Violent Gestures Petty Unimportant Strong Emotions

Book:This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

“And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .”

Thinking Firsts Book Light Able Felt Week Paper Prison Endure Circles Evening Cells Sheets Lamps Without You

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.”

People Knows Want Happened Glory Save A Life

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.”

People Ends Form Law Charity Camps Deceived

Book:This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen

“Why is it that nobody cries out, nobody spits in their faces, nobody jumps at their throats? We doff our caps to the S.S. men returning from the little wood; if our name is called out we obediently go with them to die, and we do nothing. We starve, we are drenched by rain, we are torn from our families. What is this mystery? This strange power of one man over another? This insane passivity that cannot be overcome? Our only strength is our great number; the gas chambers cannot accommodate all of us.”

Ifs Men Littles Faces Dies Names Numbers Mystery Cry Strange Rain Overcoming Woods Insane Our Family Gas One Man Throat Torn Chamber Caps Spit Accommodate Passivity Power Of One Gas Chambers

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“Mary is the lily in God's garden.”

Garden Mary Lilies

Author:Bridget of Sweden

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