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Quote by John Dryden
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before! – John Dryden

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. – John Dryden

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Money
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. – John Dryden

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Fortune
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. – Karl Rove

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Whats interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: Its either a utopia or its misery. The real truth is that theres going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. – Albert Brooks

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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the 70s. – Jet Li

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I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. – Susan Orlean

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