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High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

— John Templeton

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The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."

The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio (2002)

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now.

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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