That is the problem with age ...

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
 Bill Bonner

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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 Seneca the Younger
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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 Sigmund Freud
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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 Winston Churchill
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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 Abraham Lincoln
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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 Winston Churchill

Quotes from the same author

Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.
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 Bill Bonner