Estates Quotes - Page 13

• [The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Luxury, Poverty

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.8

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• The law showeth unto us our sins, and maketh known unto us our miserable estate and wretchedness, and how that there is nothing good in us, and that we are far off from all manner of righteousness, and so driveth us of necessity to seek righteousness in Christ.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Law, Sin, Miserable

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• One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon - the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.

  Seth Shostak

  Real, Moon, Fusion

  "Armstrong Wasn’t Columbus" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Names, Justice

  Dave Barry (2010). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

  David Lereah

  Appreciation, Real, Opportunity

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• In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.

  Howard Gordon

  Real, Character, Tv Shows

  Source: deadline.com

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• For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from their houses. That is called "jingle mail," returning the keys to the bank and saying, "You can have the house. I can buy the house next door that's just like this for 20% less, so I'm going to save money and switch." That's what someone like Donald Trump or a real estate investor would do. But the banks are trying to convince the mortgage debtors, the homeowners, not to act in their own self-interest.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Walking Away, Keys

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Fire, Pay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Doe

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• I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

  Dennis Miller

  Teenager, Insulting, Auctions

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• Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.

  Carol Leifer

  Real, Making Love, Buying

  Carol Leifer (2009). “When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror”, p.10, Villard

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• If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Real, Believe, Obamacare

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• Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Poverty, Produce

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I thought was even within hailing distance of objective truth.... 'incentive-caused bias,' causes this terrible abuse. And many of the people who are doing it you would be glad to have married into your family compared to what you're otherwise going to get.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Distance, Years

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, Differences, Determined

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• In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Thinking, World

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 6, 2006.

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• Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Keith, Basquiat

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, January 15, 2016.

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• I was a businessman. I was a real estate man and a businessman. That was the first time I think that question was ever even asked of me. That was long before the war took place. Joe Scarborough just released something yesterday more on point, much nearer. He put out a tweet saying that you know, "Trump is right, look what he just said." So you have to take a look at that. But regardless. The war in Iraq was a disaster. It was probably the worst thing. If you look at the Middle East now, all started because of that horrible decision to go into Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Real, War, Men

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

  John Woolman

  War, Light, House

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• I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.

  Shane Bunting

  Real, Guy, Rolling

  Source: 411mania.com

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• For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Responsibility, Hands, Guessing

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

  Donald Trump

  People, Taxation, Firsts

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, War, Fighting

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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