Charles Dow (Charles Henry Dow) Quotes
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.
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I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Concealment of negative facts that might influence a consumer to purchase another manufacturer's product is the essence of fraud.
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The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
