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“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“The most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis is that, in a world with nuclear weapons, a classic military victory is an illusion. Communism was not defeated militarily; it was defeated economically, culturally, and ideologically. Khrushchev’s successors were unable to provide their own people with a basic level of material prosperity and spiritual fulfillment. They lost the war of ideas. In the end, as I have argued in Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, communism defeated itself.”
― Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight

“If you're going to go out, go out in a blaze of glory.”
― Guy Martin, Guy Martin: My Autobiography

“People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.”
― Carla H. Krueger