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He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.

If you can’t think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn’t scientific.

Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.

The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society.

What moves us, reasonably enough, is not the realization that the world falls short of being completely just – which few of us expect – but that there are clearly remediable injustices around us which we want to eliminate.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.

There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

The game taught me the game.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.

But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.