Tom Stamper

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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship

2230 likes

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
― Ronald Reagan

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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