You are not going to stay tuned to financial TV all day long if all you hear is that the market went up 150 points because it did, and then declined 250 points because it does that from time to time.

FORBES: No Default As Long As The Fed Has A Printing Press

That new three-story monster-house on the block, could you believe two mil, those show-off window arches and did you get a load of that corny balcony, all of it throwing the neighborhood out of whack, a crazy eyesore, but hey, it was driving property values up, he could live with that.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

Studying all this data and all the other stuff that is readily available you can, as the United Nations did recently, say with a high degree of certainty that come the year 2050 there will be 8.9 billion people on the planet.

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You know, he did the Louisiana Purchase, and was hypocritical and all that.

FORBES: The Debt Ceiling, Thomas Jefferson and the Semi-Virtue of a Balanced Budget Amendment

You have to be comfortable with the fact that your achievement might not be shared and celebrated by all, because they know how you did it.

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Secretary Rumsfeld himself did what he did as a young soldier, a young man, and did all his life -- you and he and others streamed into that breach between the 4th and 5th corridors, where the devastation was the greatest, where death came in an instant, but also where there were survivors to be found.

WHITEHOUSE: Vice President Biden gives Remarks at the Pentagon

They ask whether you made payments in 2011 that required you to issue Forms 1099, and if you did, whether you issued all the requisite forms.

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Talk to Governor Schwarzenegger if you don't believe the kinds of help that was involved -- and we did all this in the first month. (Applause.) The first month.

WHITEHOUSE: Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California

You develop an attitude that we are all inherently equal regardless of who went to school and who did not that there can be smart people who did not have any book learning and never had a chance.

NEWYORKER: Partners