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• Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Real

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• It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

  John Jay Chapman

  Enemy, Reform, Prejudice

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

  Dave Barry

  Science, Technology, Teeth

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Liberty, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

  Gerry Harvey

  Business, Confused, Buying Things

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• It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, Thinking, Dust

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• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, People, Use

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• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

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• A woman is always buying something.

  Ovid

  Funny, Buying Something

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• The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

  Gene Hoffman

  Song, Technology, Cds

  "New software puts latest tunes a click away" by Don Knapp, www.cnn.com. December 10, 1998.

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• I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods on the human body have not been thoroughly tested. Sugars are also sneaked into tons of different foods, especially foods marketed to kids. Again, study the labels carefully before buying.

  Deirdre Imus

  Kids, Gmos, Long

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• Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

  Ken Fox

  Badass, Coffee, Espresso

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• I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Names, Imagination, Curiosity

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, People, Office

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.

  Josh Turner

  Valentines Day, Song, Years

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• We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

  Conn Smythe

  Leadership, Sports, People

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• I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

  Sheridan Smith

  Shoes, Needs, Louboutins

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• Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

  Bill Watterson

  Buying In, Rewards, Matter

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Business, Airplane

  Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch, 1981.

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• Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

  Tim Federle

  Fun, Firsts, Supplies

  Tim Federle (2015). “Five, Six, Seven, Nate!”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you've got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that's the way we filter out buying opportunities.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Two, Filters

  "Afternoon Session - 1997 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 5, 1997.

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• I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing - if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer.

  Steve Stoute

  Young Entrepreneurs, Leader, Competition

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• One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to four days. This pattern is a function of human behavior. It takes several days of a market rallying before it looks really good. That’s when everyone wants to buy it, and that’s the time when the professionals, like myself, are selling. Conversely, when the market has been down for a few days, and everyone is bearish, that’s the time I like to be buying.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Moving, Two, Vices

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• There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  "The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

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