“Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.” KnowsMenSaidDiesRichHe ManFellowsMadIdiotMillionaireLunaticMad MenCarnegieBuffett Author:David Nasaw
“I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.” LooksHas BeensBodyDiesReadingBeliefKnownCitizensFellowsNewspapersPassingPassingsMedia ManipulationReading Newspapers Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.” WorldMaySeemsMovingDiesLostFellowsAbsurdCentreFragmentsForeignersPersecutedCountrymen Book:And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos Source: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos