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  2. AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes - Wikipedia

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    Rick Blaine is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry and Sudden Impact), James Bond (Dr. No and Goldfinger), Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard), Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind), and The Terminator (The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day) have two quotes each.

  3. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law. Jefferson also may have been influenced by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which was published in early 1776: Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, 1778. He is credited with ...

  4. Milton Friedman - Wikipedia

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    That is, students should measure the accuracy of its predictions, rather than the 'soundness of its assumptions'. His argument was part of an ongoing debate among such statisticians as Jerzy Neyman, Leonard Savage, and Ronald Fisher. [116] While being an advocate of the free market, Friedman believed that the government had two crucial roles.

  5. Warren Buffett - Wikipedia

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    In high school, he invested in a business owned by his father and bought a 40-acre farm worked by a tenant farmer. [22] He bought the land when he was 14 years old with $1,200 of his savings. [ 22 ] By the time he finished college, Buffett had amassed $9,800 in savings (about $130,000 today).

  6. John D. Rockefeller - Wikipedia

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    In 1853, his family moved to Strongsville, Ohio, and he attended Cleveland's Central High School, the first high school in Cleveland and the first free public high school west of the Alleghenies. Then he took a ten-week business course at Folsom's Commercial College, where he studied bookkeeping. [33]

  7. United we stand, divided we fall - Wikipedia

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    The first attributed use in modern times is to Founding Father John Dickinson in his pre-Revolutionary War song "The Liberty Song", first published on July 7, 1768, in both the Pennsylvania Journal and Pennsylvania Gazette newspapers. [4] In the song Dickinson wrote: "Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing ...

  8. History of central banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It was responsible for only 20% of the currency supply; state banks accounted for the rest. Several founding fathers bitterly opposed the bank. Thomas Jefferson saw it as an engine for speculation, financial manipulation, and corruption. [3] In 1811 its twenty-year charter expired and was not renewed by Congress.

  9. Side project time - Wikipedia

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    Within Google, this initiative became known as the "20% Project." [5] Employees were encouraged to spend up to 20 percent of their paid work time pursuing personal projects. The objective of the program was to inspire innovation in participating employees and ultimately increase company potential. Google's 20% Project was influenced by 3M's ...