"If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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"What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose."

— Paul Begala

Politics1961

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"The reason of a commandment, whether positive or negative, is clear, and its usefulness evident, if it directly tends to remove injustice, or to teach good conduct that furthers the well-being of soci…"

— Maimonides

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"In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand."

— Bill Gates

Business1915–1968

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