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For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission ... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it ... — Barry Ritholtz

Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go. — Laura Lee Guhrke

If peace was really within reach wasn't it immoral to fail? — Lawrence Wright

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold. — Chris Matakas

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. — Daryl Hall

Not too many players try to bluff me. If there's going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I'm going to be the one doing to it. — Johnny Chan

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. — Cormac McCarthy

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship. — Leonardo DiCaprio

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting. — Jose Carreras

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other. — Katharine Graham

A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me. — George Saunders

We must be open to God's miracles. — Mitch Albom

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves. — Shirley Maclaine

The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy