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As a parent and a citizen, Ill take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffet

As a parent and a citizen, Ill take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobss example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. – Eric Alterman

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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklins Courant, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing Americas last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. – Eric Alterman

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Imagination
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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics – just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. – Eric Alterman

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Politics
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Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, its easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. – Eric Alterman

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Anger
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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. – Nina Totenberg

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But I do think its important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books. – China Mieville

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If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. – Charles Stanley

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. – Archimedes

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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. – David Ogden Stiers

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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. – English Proverb

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