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"The investment firm of Smith Barney: they make money the old-fashioned way--they earn it. Right. The rest of us pick it off trees in the backyard."
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"The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the n…"
— Roger Ebert
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